50/50

Inspired by personal experiences, 50/50 is an original story about friendship, love, survival and finding humor in unlikely places. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis in this new comedy directed by Jonathan Levine from a script by Will Reiser.

“We worked with Will on Da Ali G show, and it was shortly after that we learned he was sick.” Rogen recalls. “As shocking, sad, confusing and generally screwed up as it was; we couldn’t ignore that because we were so ill-equipped to deal with the situation, funny things kept happening. Will got better, and when he did, we thought the best way to pull something good out of the situation was to get him to write a screenplay. Ideally we wanted to make a film that would be as funny, sad, and hopefully as honest as the experience we went through. As soon as the script was completed, it quickly became a passion project for all of us. It helped us come to terms with Will’s struggle as well as our own experiences.”

50/50 is the story of a guy’s transformative and, yes, sometimes funny journey to health — drawing its emotional core from Will Reiser’s own experience with cancer and reminding us that friendship and love, no matter what bizarre turns they take, are the greatest healers.

Opens Friday, September 30th.

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Hesher

Loud music. Pornography. Burning shit to the ground. These are a few of Hesher’s favorite things. And they are what Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) brings in to the lives of TJ (Devin Brochu) and his father, Paul (Rainn Wilson) when he takes up residence in their garage uninvited.

Grief-stricken by the loss of TJ’s mother in a car accident, Paul can’t muster the strength to evict the strange squatter, and soon the long-haired, tattooed Hesher becomes a fixture in the household. Like a force of nature, Hesher’s anarchy shakes the family out of their grief and helps them embrace life once more.

Opens in limited release Friday, May 13.

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Hello Two Thousand-11!

Happy New Year one and all! And what a year 2010 was. We ended things with a *bang!* getting 50,000 hits in the month of December. Our heartfelt thanks to you for making that milestone possible.

If you haven’t already taken a look at our Featured Profiles for Garrett Hedlund (by new contributor Laura), Cam Gigandet (by RioKitty) and Ben Barnes (by ClaireW) check them out. You just might find your next obsession.

We have a new poll up. Do you think you can predict what will be the Best Picture of 2010? Get in there and vote!

Are you curious who were the most visited Ones2Watch4 profiles of 2010? Well wonder no longer:

1. Matthew Goode
2. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
3. Cam Gigandet
4. James Marsden (soon to be seen on Modern Family!)
5. Josh Duhamel

Off we go into 2011! As always we love suggestions on who we should profile and welcome new contributors. Stay classy World Wide Web.

The Men of Summer!

July is going to be a big month. We’ve got some blockbuster movies coming out like The Last Airbender (ok, well maybe not), Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Inception. Look for reviews of Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Inception. Plus we’d got the cons of all cons Comic-Con 2010 starting July 22nd. O2W4 of course will be in attendence, tweeting you updates and photos all weekend.

Our featured actors this month are a diverse group of gentlemen all with movies releasing either in July or August. Our thanks to our new contributors RioKitty and Kimmie for their fantastic profiles. And if you want to contribute to O2W4 let us know. We’re always looking to exploit fresh talent!

Don’t forget your sunscreen, or better yet, stay cool inside a dark movie theater! Have a great July everyone!

Inception

From the official site: Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in “Inception,” an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams.

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the best in the dangerous art of extraction: stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible—inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse; their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime.

But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Legendary Pictures, a Syncopy Production, a film by Christopher Nolan, “Inception.”

The film stars three-time Academy Award® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (“Blood Diamond,” “The Aviator”), Academy Award® nominee Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai”), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“500 Days of Summer”), Oscar® winner Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”), Academy Award® nominee Ellen Page (“Juno”), Tom Hardy (“RocknRolla,” “Bronson”), Cillian Murphy (“Batman Begins”), Tom Berenger (“Training Day”), Dileep Rao (“Avatar”), and two-time Oscar® winner Michael Caine (“Hannah and Her Sisters,” “The Cider House Rules”).

“Inception” was written and directed by Oscar® nominee Christopher Nolan (“Memento,” “The Dark Knight”), who also produced the film with Emma Thomas. Chris Brigham and Thomas Tull served as executive producers, with Jordan Goldberg co-producing.

Nolan’s behind-the-scenes collaborators included three-time Oscar®-nominated director of photography Wally Pfister (“The Dark Knight,” “The Prestige,” “Batman Begins”), production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas (“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”), two-time Oscar®-nominated editor Lee Smith (“The Dark Knight,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World”), Oscar®-nominated costume designer Jeffrey Kurland (“Bullets Over Broadway,” “Collateral”), and Oscar®-nominated special effects supervisor Chris Corbould (“The Dark Knight”). The music is by Academy Award®-winning composer Hans Zimmer (“The Dark Knight,” “The Lion King”).

Concurrently with the film’s nationwide theatrical release, “Inception: The IMAX Experience” will be released in select IMAX® theatres. “Inception” will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through proprietary IMAX DMR® technology. With crystal clear images, laser-aligned digital sound and maximized field of view, IMAX provides the world’s most immersive movie experience.

Opening nationwide on July 16, 2010, “Inception” has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for sequences of violence and action throughout.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It takes a lot to say “God hates Homos,” and be sympathetic. I know what you’re thinking, not exactly the first words that come to mind when you think, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but because of his amazing range and strength in taking on characters of all kinds, he has muttered those words. As Elder Riley in the independent film Latter Days, Joe plays a small part. However his jaw-dropping line is basically, the whole point of the film and it’s delivered with an innocence that transforms it’s awfulness into a tone that makes you wonder if maybe, he isn’t right. He’s just that good.

28-year-old Joe, is probably most known for the very recent bright light of success for his Golden Globe and Independent Spirit nominated role as Tom Hansen in 500 Days of Summer, with the beautifully understated Zoey Deschanel (with whom he also shared the screen in indie-film, Manic). Tom is the epitome of the oh so adorable, ‘hopeless romantic’, with an endearing use of language that he applies to the description of love and all things romantically related. His performance leaves you wanting to be his girlfriend and mend his tragically broken heart.

Joe’s breadth of acting began in 1988 as a child. He’s had stints on various television shows, including: “Rosanne”, “Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman”, “Quantum Leap” and more. He finally hit the ‘big time’ with his lovable role as Cameron, in the cult-hit film 10 Things I Hate About You. Although Heath Ledger may have been the biggest star to come out of that film, Joe’s freshness landed him the role as Tommy Solomon on the long running television series “3rd Rock from the Sun” aside comedic great, John Lithgow. Joe brought viewers continued laughter as an alien assimilating on Earth in the form of an angsty human teenager, while dealing with heart break and high school. The show won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe during it’s run from 1996 to 2001.

In addition to his minor role in Latter Days Joe has starred in numerous independent films, most of which were in parts of socially marginal, angry, hurt individuals. Among them, Mysterious Skin, he takes on a serious and difficult role in the film adaptation of a controversial novel, in which he plays a sexually compulsive, homosexual teen, who has turned to a life of prostitution and whose “clients” are mostly middle aged men, by choice. The reason for this dangerous and seedy lifestyle? Sexual abuse by his baseball coach as a young boy. His depiction of the broken and confused teen is at times difficult to watch, however; both enthralling and emotional. Manic, with it’s documentary feel, plunges Joe’s character, into a juvenile mental ward after he has an explosive outburst involving a baseball bat, that is a violent and utterly disturbing. Joe’s performance is riveting as he attempts to deal with and perhaps channel his feelings of anger, violence and rage.

Lucky for us, Joe is appearing in the upcoming sci-fi action thriller-ish film, Inception, written and directed by now legendary Christopher Nolan, in theatre’s 7-16-10. He plays Arthur, whose part of a team put together by criminal(?) C.E.O. Cobb, played by Leonardo Decaprio. The team has the technology to divulge the “scene of the crime”, from the “architecture of the mind.” Yeah, I’m still trying to figure out what that means. Where’s all those WonderCon panel attendees when you need ‘em? But, more to the point, there’s something sexy about a man with a gun and Arthur just happens to be a gun-toter. Now, maybe they could just remove his shirt while he’s shooting at a bad guy? Eh, a girl can dream.

What grabs me most about Joe, well aside from those deep as puddles brown eyes, toned body, small spattering of freckles, honest smile… ::sigh:: … Where I was I going with that? Oh right, what grabs me most about Joe, known as RegularJOE to cyberspace, is his conviction to creativity and his full-hearted devotion, both on and off screen. In an interview in 2007, he stated, “the point of acting [is] to affect people.” His film and television history demonstrates his deep commitment to this belief, and his ability to make the viewer relate to him, in any of his forms; sex-crazed abuse victim, lovely and adorable romantic, alien in human adolescent form, you catch my drift.

He also stated, “I just want to work on things that I think are good.” He’s taken this belief to higher grounds; you could say it’s been Levit-tated (ha!). Early this year, Joe started, what may become a revolution in media, with his web-site, www.hitRECord.org, which has evolved into a “full-fledged professional collaborative production company,” where he is attempting to create a new medium for all types of talent (art, dance, music, acting, etc.) RegularJOE will actually pay you (yes you, you creative soul) for any contribution you make on the site that becomes part of a “money making production.” If you take a gander at his site, among many “records” you’ll see a short film, entitled, Morgan and Destiny’s Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo, directed by and starring Joe, along side two-time co-star and fellow hotness, Channing Tatum (together in 2009’s, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and 2008’s, Stop-Loss). This lil’ nugget is sure to make you smile; as the sheer silliness of Joe’s creative soul is played out in black and white.

Always busy Joseph Gordon-Levitt has an ever-growing desire to be apart of something great. At 18, he took some time off from acting to attend Columbia College, where he studied classes taught solely in French. He has no desire to be a “celebrity”, and stated that “celebrity is giving into the idea that certain people are better than others, and I say: **ck that, we’re all people! We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention!” Joe surely has gotten my attention, and I’m sitting on the edge of my seat, just dying to see what he’ll do next.

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(500) Days of Summer

This is a story of boy meets girl, begins the wry, probing narrator of 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny, true to life and unique dissection of the unruly and unpredictable year-and-a-half of one young man’s no-holds-barred love affair.

Opens July 17th.

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