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Eva Mendes Busts Out at “Bad Lieutenant” Screening

2009-11-20T07:57:00.000-08:00

Doing her best to boost interest in her upcoming movie, Eva Mendes attended a screening of “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” at the SVA Theater in New York City on Sunday evening (November 8).
Looking ever-so-sexy in a carefully unbuttoned white blouse paired with a black skirt and black heels, the 35-year-old actress popped out of her top as she posed for pictures while mingling with guests including Susan Sarandon, Ice-T, Coco, Jennifer Missoni and Amy Landecker, among others.

Due out in select cities on November 20th, Eva’s new flick “follows the drug and gambling riddled detective Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) as he investigates the killing of five Senegalese immigrants in post-Katrina New Orleans.”
Meanwhile, Eva was applauded by co-star Jennifer Coolidge for her high energy level during the filming process, as Miss Coolidge told press, “I was so exhausted after fighting with Eva because she’s really strong, and we had to fight over some drugs in a purse. She tired me out. ... She has more energy than I have.”

Source:http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrities/hollywood/eva-mendes-bad-lieutenant-babe-213008/

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Eva Mendes wardrobe malfunction at movie premiere

2009-11-20T03:07:00.000-08:00

It was only a couple of weeks ago, that singer Amy Winehouse had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction and showed off her new breast implants and now, it appears that yet another celebrity has joined the list and had one of her very own.

And the celebrity I am talking about is Hollywood actress Eva Mendes. The actress was in the Big Apple, to promote her new thriller movie “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” on Monday night, but was left a bit embarrassed.

According to timesofindia.indiatimes.com, a button on the shirt Eva was wearing popped open and revealed her assets, as she posed for photographers. And apparently, she had forgotten to take the labels of her new shoes as well.

Source: http://www.inentertainment.co.uk/20091111/eva-mendes-wardrobe-malfunction-at-movie-premiere/

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Filmmaker Werner Herzog turns the pigs loose: Wait a minute, those are iguanas

2009-11-19T07:55:00.000-08:00

Bad Lieutenant was a critical hit in Toronto, but director Werner Herzog says that doesn't mean much. "The press is an abnormal audience. The real test comes when you show the film in Omaha, Nebraska, and in Stevens Point, Wisconsin."

Photograph by: Getty Images, Getty Images

TORONTO -- Werner Herzog is talking about violence in the movies -- he's mostly against it -- when a cellphone goes off, and won't stop ringing. "It must be the Vatican," Herzog says, apropos of nothing you can put your finger on. "He must be trying to reach me. He's a fellow Bavarian. He knows I'm in distress."
No, Benedict XVI is not really on the line. Herzog is being funny.
He's a lot funnier than you think he is. He'll tell you so himself, and with the same kind of straight-faced obsession that characterizes his movies. "I've always been labelled 'that obsessive Teutonic filmmaker,'" he told a Toronto film festival news conference earlier in the day. "But wrong; I've always been hilarious."
Indeed, he's had his moments -- one of his early films was called Even Dwarfs Started Small -- but he's mostly known for intense fare, such as his 1982 movie Fitzcarraldo, based on the true story of a man trying to build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. The shooting of the movie itself became an obsessive exercise about an obsessive character: Herzog had to replicate the feat to make the movie, and all the while, he was at odds with his leading man, Klaus Kinski, whom a native chief volunteered to murder. Herzog wrote a book about the experience called Conquest of the Useless.
There is also undeniable humour in his latest movie, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a film noir with Nicolas Cage as a drug-addicted policeman. The movie is a remake of sorts. Abel Ferrara made a 1992 film called Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Keitel, but Herzog insists he's never seen it, that his movie is not a remake at all, and that he fought against the title from the beginning, although in the press notes, he writes that film academics will probably find parallels. "Go for it, losers," he advises them. For his part, Ferrara has been quoted as saying, "As far as remakes go . . . I wish these people die in hell. I hope they're all in the same streetcar, and it blows up."
Nevertheless, Port of Call is a huge departure from Ferrara's movie. It's both hallucinogenic and funny. Herzog says he advised Cage, "This time, you shall turn the pig loose," which is his way of saying it's all right to go over the top.
"It's not so much the idea," he says of his decision to direct Bad Lieutenant. "It was more a few things more, in general. Number 1, working with Nicolas Cage. Number 2, doing it in New Orleans. Number 3, doing a new form of film noir. Different. A new way of doing it. You can see what I tried to explain to Nicolas Cage by bluntly telling him, 'Let's go for the bliss of evil. Not for the guilt, not for the all-pervasive darkness of it. Let's be so vile, so debased, that it becomes hilarious.' And I hope it works."
Herzog says he has wanted to work with Cage for years. They met decades ago, when Cage was young Nicolas Coppola, nephew of filmmaker Francis Coppola. "We kept looking at each other's work over a long time," Herzog says. "It never occurred to either one of us to work together, and they almost simultaneously we had the feeling, 'Why have we not worked together ever?' It's kind of inexplicable." He says Cage pushed himself to the limits in the movie, so "in that sense, we were a very good combination."
Bad Lieutenant was shot on the run: Herzog chose 40 locations, cast 35 speaking parts and put a crew together in three or four weeks.
"When you feel so confident about the substance of a project, it doesn't matter," he says. "You can wake me up at four in the morning with a bucket of ice-cold water and say 'next scene,' and I'd be wide-awake and I'd shoot the next scene. It's professional work, and Nicolas Cage is a professional and so am I. It doesn't matter what time of the night you wake us up, we'll be right there and we'll deliver."
Along with Cage's performance, Bad Lieutenant is known for its bizarre scenes. In one, a gangster is shot dead, but his soul survives and begins to breakdance until it is shot again. There is also an alligator-eye view of a car accident, and a sequence where two iguanas are visible to Cage's character but not to anyone else.
"Completely big, completely demented, a complete figment of a crazed crack-cocaine fantasy," says Herzog, who adds that, if the iguanas had been cut from the story, he would quit the movie business. He just loves putting animals into his films.
"I don't know. I love to cast them," he says. He filmed the iguanas himself, using a tiny lens inside a fibre-optic cable that moved in front of the iguanas' eyes.
"They are totally perplexed and so utterly stupid and so utterly strange that it had to have its effect," he says. "I'm not surprised that people talk about the iguanas or the dancing soul or the alligator." Those elements were all added by Herzog, who says he loved the original screenplay by William Finkelstein but felt he had to personalize it.
"I immediately told him, 'Billy, I have to mould the screenplay where I can feel comfortable, where I am at my best,'" Herzog says. In return, Finkelstein was given the role as the gangster with the dancing soul. "I knew I would make him a good actor," he says.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was a critical hit in Toronto, but Herzog says that doesn't mean much. "The press is an abnormal audience. The real test comes when you show the film in Omaha, Nebraska, and in Stevens Point, Wisconsin." Still, he says he's not worried.
"I know that we have a fine movie, very entertaining, very hilarious, very good story, extremely good acting. So what else can you offer an audience?"

Source:http://www.canada.com/entertainment/celebrity/Filmmaker+Werner+Herzog+turns+pigs+loose+Wait+minute+those+iguanas/2228303/story.html

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Eva Mendes Admires Nicolas Cage's Owl

2009-11-19T03:06:00.000-08:00

Not many co-stars embody the eccentric lifestyle like Nicolas Cage.

"One time I was on set on this last film," Eva Mendes told Moviefone at last week's premiere of her new drama 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,' co-starring Cage, at AFI Fest in Hollywood.

"I said, 'You know what, it would be so cool to own an owl,'" Mendes says. "He's like, 'I had an owl for a couple years.' He's that guy that had an owl for a couple years. He's the guy who has really interesting taste in music, and film, and literature. He has a castle in the middle of Germany, for God's sake. [He's] just such an interesting artist." (Meanwhile, Cage is reportedly selling the castle he owns in Somerset, UK.)

Cage has gotten acclaim for his role in Werner Herzog's 'Bad Lieutenant' remake, in which he plays Det. Terence McDonagh (Harvey Keitel played "The Lieutenant" in the controversial 1992 original). Roger Ebert called Cage "as good as anyone since Klaus Kinski at portraying a man whose head is exploding. It's a hypnotic performance."

He did not attend last week's Hollywood premiere, just a few days after his father, August Coppola, died.

Mendes, who says the past year has been "really fun for me," plays a toned-down version of herself in 'Lieutenant,' which hits theaters in limited release Nov. 20.

"I think what I love about my performance is that there is some subtlety," Mendes says. "I let Nic do all the crazy stuff. I play the straight man, which is kind of nice ... She's a prostitute and a drug addict in the film. That should give you an idea of what this movie is like."

Source: http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2009/11/09/eva-mendes-admires-nicolas-cages-owl/

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Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans review

2009-11-18T08:11:00.000-08:00

Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage bring Bad Lieutenant back to life. And somehow, it kind of works...

Published on Oct 27, 2009

Of all the remakes to have been announced recently, Bad Lieutenant was perhaps the most galling. After all, Abel Ferrara's 1992 original remains such a shocking film, with a ferocious, uninhibited performance by Harvey Keitel. How could anything compete?

The good news then, is that Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans isn't as bad as you may have feared. In fact, it's actually very good. Because while it takes certain elements from the original - an unhinged cop, a case to solve, a chance of redemption - Port Of Call isn't trying to outdo or match the intensity of Ferrara and Keitel's effort. Interestingly, director Werner Herzog has made a film closer to a surreal comedy than the original, and Cage a character so grandiose and idiosyncratic that it's a memorable screen creation worthy of sitting alongside Keitel's.

Indeed, so good is Cage that at times Port Of Call seems to exist merely as a showcase for the actor to unleash a performance that seems to have been bottled up inside him after years of autopilot in films such as Ghost Rider and Bangkok Dangerous. And that's no bad thing. But Herzog has his own bag of tricks he wants to play with as well (just wait for those iguanas), making this a mainstream film quite unlike most other mainstream films we're likely to see this year.

Starting out in the immediate aftermath of post-Katrina New Orleans, we first see Cage's Terence McDonagh as a rather honourable cop. Heading back into a flooded police station to retrieve incriminating photos of another cop for his own means (so not that honourable, but still), he chooses to save a prisoner still locked away in his cell as the water level rises. But the chronic back pain he gets as a result sees McDonagh dependent on pain-killing drugs to make it through each day. Cut to six months later and he's taking hits of cocaine in-between arrests, stealing from the station's evidence locker and having sex with female perps.

There's nothing here as shocking as Keitel's masturbation scene from the original, but that's mostly by design. This is another Herzog film about one man's obsession. Here it seems that just making it through another day is that which drives McDonagh. Or creating some semblance of the typical happy family; his strung out prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes), his drunken father and stepmother (a barely recognisable Jennifer Coolidge), and a teenage witness to a crime that he takes into his care, only to lose soon after.

There's a perfunctory plot at work here, a shooting which McDonagh, at turns, seems infatuated with solving and then ready to throw away in order to secure his next hit. It's Cage's performance, though, that gives Port Of Call so much of its energy.

Hunched over, stiff and often looking horrific, he's like a Boris Karloff creation, a lumbering monster yet one you can't help but be mesmerised by. Just sitting down in a chair becomes a wildly over-the-top, exaggerated performance.

Next to Cage the rest of the cast barely get a look in. Val Kilmer turns up in a few scenes in the first half hour, then disappears for much of the film until a comically over-played finale that lays on happy ending after happy ending with gleeful abandon.

This is Cage's show, and Herzog builds everything round him; a trippy iguana scene played out to the sounds of Johnny Adams' Release Me with a bemused and grinning Cage in the background being the highlight; a crazed interrogation within an old people's home a close second.

"I have my bad days," admits Cage towards the end of the film. Next to Keitel's they're relatively mild, but in return they're far more enjoyable to watch. And while Herzog hasn't created a film with the substance and visceral power of Ferrara's, he's done something perhaps more impressive - he's made Nicholas Cage exciting again.

Source: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/345243/bad_lieutenant_port_of_call_new_orleans_review.html

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Eva Mendes: I Use My Sexuality for Movie Roles

2009-11-18T07:54:00.000-08:00

Actress Eva Mendes isn't afraid to admit that she uses her sex-symbol status to help her secure film roles.

“I don’t allow myself to be typecast, but when I have to turn up the heat and turn up the sexuality and I do an amazing Calvin Klein campaign it’s very conscious, that’s no accident. It’s very methodical on my part,” Mendes explained. “If I feel it's appropriate to show some nudity in the scenes then I go for it. As much as I use my sexuality, I have never felt exploited. I feel like it’s on my terms and I have no problem with it.”

And while Mendes is one of the most in-demand actresses in Hollywood who has likely been all around the world, interestingly enough, she only made her first visit to the hurricane-torn New Orleans while filming her latest crime drama “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” in August last year.

“It was exciting because we brought business there, but it was pretty devastating. I was in shock at some parts, I hadn’t been there ever so I was still in shock that this happened in our country,” Mendes told us while promoting the flick. “I felt we were somewhere else in certain areas. Our government failed this; you can see they failed this. It was pretty intense.”

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But in the making of “Bad Lieutenant”, the 35-year-old actress certainly got more than she bargained for when she signed on to play a prostitute and the object of Nic Cage’s affection.

“There’s a scene where we’re stuck with this dog, the dog liked to (or had to) pass gas a lot. He was stinky,” Mendes said. “We had to be in a car all day with the windows rolled up because it was raining. Now New Orleans, summertime, heat, humidity, rain and a stinky dog in the car – it was disgusting. It was so disgusting at times we couldn’t even breathe. The poor baby, every time we saw him after that if went from ‘hi, how are you?’ to ‘argh… the farter!’”

So while having a smelly canine isn’t exactly on Ms Mendes’s wish list, she definitely does want to go to some pretty pungent places. “I want crazier, edgier, darker, and grittier. I am still a student, I still go to acting class,” she added. “The darker, more conflicted, the more flawed the better.”

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/11/11/eva-mendes-use-sexuality-movie-roles/?test=faces

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Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans - Review

2009-11-18T03:05:00.000-08:00

Bad Lieutenant contains many wonderful things, not the least of which is Nic Cage giving his first great performance in at least half a decade. It also contains the year’s best line of dialogue and maybe also the year’s best ending, one which pulls no punches and doesn’t seem to give a fuck whether you walk out of the theater liking it or not. That these things are wonderful is not really open to interpretation, and I’d question the taste of anyone who doesn’t acknowledge the soul dancing line (which deserves not to be spoiled) as the most badass thing heard inside a movie theater in 2009. What is open to interpretation is whether all of these things fit together into some sort of cohesive whole, or is this just some meandering, drug-addled middle finger? I say it works brilliantly, and now turn your back while I bang your girlfriend and steal your drugs. See this badge? It means I’m a film critic and it means I can trample your movie opinions in any way I want, in pursuit of a greater cinematic good.

That’s an attitude I share with Terence McDonagh, a bad cop if there ever was one. During hurricane Katrina he injures his back while engaged in an act of heroism and now, plagued by constant spasms, his addiction to pain medication has led to an addiction to whatever he can shove up his nose or in his mouth. He gets his fix the way he gets everything in life, by waving his badge and using his police powers to force people to give it to him. McDonagh rousts revelers as they exit clubs and threatens them with arrest unless they give him a hit and a fuck. He lifts whatever he can get his hands on from the evidence room. He sticks his gun, which rests carelessly askew in the waistband of his pants, in the face of anyone who gets in his way.

Yet in spite of his addiction to gross misconduct, McDonagh still believes in the job. More than that, he is the job. He has almost no life outside of his police work, though it grows more and more difficult to keep up the cop façade as every day he slips further and further into a haze of hardcore drug use. Through it all, there’s the pain. Cage lurches across the screen, his stoop growing greater with each passing day as McDonagh’s chronic back pain becomes immune to the constant, numbing chemicals he shoves in his body and so, he must take even more.

McDonagh winds his way through the still struggling city of New Orleans looking for murderers and dealing with the problem of crime solving by joining in on the crime committing. He’s single-minded in pursuit of whatever it is he’s after at any given moment, whether it’s murderers or sex or drugs or momentary love. He protects his prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mendes) with the same zeal he applies towards shooting up. It’s all the same to him. He lusts after everything and gets what he wants by waving his badge and threatening until everyone gives in.

The truth of Bad Lieutenant is that sometimes, when you’re after the lowest of the low, it takes one to know one. McDonagh’s partner, played by an understated Val Kilmer, seems determined to look the other way as he lumbers into the precinct trailed by bookies and carrying suspiciously large wads of cash. McDonagh gets results and everyone around him pretends not to notice everything else.

Cage is at his most brilliantly sadistic here, and he’s only helped William M. Finkelstein’s script, which uses as a basis the 1992 Abel Ferrara directed film Bad Lieutenant. The Werner Herzog directed Port of Call New Orleans isn’t a remake exactly, it stands somewhere in a vague gray area between re-imaging and flat out sequel. None of that matters as Cage’s Bad Lieutenant is its own, depraved animal. Finkelstein’s dialogue is blistering and surprising, Herzog’s direction is as surreal and unique as you’d expect from a Herzog movie. It’s funny too, in that same audacious way Inglourious Basterds was earlier this year. It’s the kind of laughter you get when you’ve just done something so astonishing, so over the top, so balls to the wall that your audience simply cannot believe it has actually been done. Cage works that, pushing the movie’s edgiest moments right over the edge, pushing for laughs that another actor might not get.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has been done to twisted perfection. Herzog’s maniacal movie refuses to flinch as it gleefully leaps into an underworld of degradation and despair in which our hero is barely a hero at all, even if he gets results. And in the end even if McDonagh gets his man, and saves the girl, and makes the world right again we know that still, nothing is right with him. It's not the point. Herzog doesn’t care about leaving you with smiles and candy grams. Bad Lieutenant is all kinds of wrong, but it feels oh so right. Herzog's film is an unhinged, one of a kind experience unlike anything else you’re likely to see this year. Don’t miss it.

Source: http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/Bad-Lieutenant-Port-Of-Call-New-Orleans-4311.html

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Movie Review: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

2009-11-17T08:10:00.000-08:00

Review Summary
Werner Herzog’s new film “The Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans,” stars Nicolas Cage as rogue detective Terence McDonagh. It's certainly a masterpiece and perhaps one of Herzog's best films and an excellent medium to showcase Cage's acting skill. It is remake of Abel Ferrara 1992 film starring Harvey Keitel. Herzog's film does not have the sheer grit and dark quality of Ferrara's version. But in typical Herzog form, this film struggles to find truth, but instead of the truth of our dreams, we see truth through a narcotics induced haze.

McDonagh is a tragic hero as devoted to police work as to using drugs. But McDonagh misfortune isn't brought about by some error of judgment. Ironically his downfall is bought about by doing the right thing - saving a man during the flooding in Hurricane Katrina—by being noble. This one act leads to severe back injury and a prescription pill addiction. Unfortunately this one act of compassion turns McDonagh into being one who is flawed—living a life full of drug use, vice and depravity. Because he acts in the name of truth, justice and fleeting highs, the lines between good and become become completely intertwined and often indistinguishable. This ambiguity so pervasive that Alvin Joiner character, the local kingpin Big Fate seems as much like a business man doing his job as a local crime lord and murderer who takes advantage of a community already ravaged by natural disaster and corruption.

Cage's performance is disturbing, puzzling and often humorous. He is completely outrageous and this is one of his best performances in a very long time. Either Eva Mendes (Frankie Donnenfeld) and Cage have no chemistry, or their performances reflects the emotional depth that a life governed by drugs dependency allows. The opinion on that depending on the day or the movie-goer. Val Kilmer's (Stevie Pruit) character is a mere shadow hiding behind a corrupt, callous, uncaring criminals system that does it's job, more or less, turning a blind eye to all else. Alvin Joiner (Big Fate) stood his own as the counterpart and coconspirator with Cage.

Synopsis
In Werner Herzog’s new film “The Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans,” Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs -- while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves (played by Eva Mendes). Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience. --© Apparition

Cast
Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Alvin “Xzibit” Joiner, Fairuza Balk (Heidi), Jennifer Coolidge (Genevieve), Brad Dourif (Ned Schoenholtz), Michael Shannon (Mundt), Shawn Hatosy (Armand Benoit), Shea Whigham (Justin), Denzel Whitaker (Daryl).

Release Date: 20 November 2009 (USA). Directed by Werner Herzog; screenplay written by William M. Finkelstein, full cast and credits; released by Millennium Films. Running time: 121 minutes; MPAA Rating: not yet rated; genre: Crime, Drama.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-27195-SF-Movies-Examiner~y2009m10d31-Movie-Review-Bad-Lieutenant-Port-of-Call-New-Orleans-2009

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BOX OFFICE BEAT DOWN: 2012 Destroys the Weekend with $65 Million!

2009-11-17T07:52:00.000-08:00

Weekend Box Office

1) 2012 - $65 million
2) Disney's a Christmas Carol - $22.3 million
3) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $6.2 million
4) Precious - $6.09 million
5) Michael Jackson's This Is It - $5.1 million
6) The Fourth Kind - $4.7 million
7) Couples Retreat - $4.25 million
8) Paranormal Activity - $4.2 million
9) Law Abiding Citizen - $3.9 million
10) The Box- $3.1 million

The latest Roland Emerich disaster flick, 2012, destroyed everything in it's way this weekend to earn the number one spot in the box office making an estimated $65 million. The film about the end of the world, which had a reported budget of somewhere around $260 million, was released on a little over 3,000 screens and made an estimated $19,095 per screen. Last week's number one film, Disney's a Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey as Scrooge fell 25.7% only making $22.3 million in it's second week. The movie, which was released on around 3,404 screens, earned only $6,062 per screen.

The Men Who Stare at Goats starring Oscar Winners George Clooney and Kevin Spacey along with Ewan McGregor and Jeff Bridges seems to have staying power with audiences as it reclaims it's number three spot on the chart for the second week in a row. The film, which was released on 2,453 screens earned about $2,528 per screen totaling over $6 million in the box office bringing its total gross upwards of $23 million just shy of it's $25 million budget. In the forth position this week is Precious a film based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire. The film, which was produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry got a wider release this week and made an impressive $35,000 per screen in only 174 theaters earning a total of $6.09 million, which brings it's total gross up to $8.9 million, just short of it's modest $10 million budget. Rounding off the top five this week is the King of Pop's opus Michael Jackson's This Is It, which continued to fall in it's third week. The documentary, which was seen on over 3,000 screens made $1,679 per screen bringing it's total gross to around $68.2 million.

The rest of this week's new films were all in limited release. Wes Anderson's animated version of author Roald Dahl's celebrated children's book The Fantastic Mr. Fox starring George Clooney and Meryl Streep made a very impressive $65,000 in only four theaters making a total of $260,000 in it's debut week. The Messenger starring Ben Foster and Woody Harelson as US soldiers with the worst duty imaginable was released in a timely manner, just a few days after Veteran's Day and made $12,500 in only four theaters earning a total of $50,000 over the weekend. The teen-threesome movie Dare starring Emmy Rossum earned $12,000 which was impressive considering it was only in two theaters making $6,000 per screen in it's first week. Finally, the British '60s pop-music film Pirate Radio starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Richard Curtis made a somewhat disappointing $2.8 million in it's first week as it was shown on over 800 screens and only made around $3,250 per screen.

Next weekend will see three new films enter into wide release. The biggest film of the week by far is the release of highly anticipated teen-vampire phenomenon The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the follow up to the ridiculously successful 2008 film Twilight. Also next week, is the release of the reverse-alien-invasion animated movie Planet 51 and the Sandra Bullock starring, true-life, inspirational football story The Blind Side. Opening in limited release next week is Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans a "not-a-remake" of the 1992 Harvey Keitel film Bad Lieutenant, this time starring Nicolas Cage as the dirty cop. Also in limited release is Broken Embraces, which marks the forth re-teaming of celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and Oscar winning actress Penelope Cruz, and the John Woo directed Chinese epic film Red Cliff. Check back in seven days to see who comes out on top at the box office next week.

Source: http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE8sfgdhjzdvag

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Movie Review

2009-11-17T02:43:00.000-08:00

If you're wondering just how bad a bad lieutenant can be, let's just say that Nicolas Cage's 21st century new and not morally improved re-incarnation of Abel Ferrara's original 1992 cult version, to say the least, renders Harvey Keitel's bad apple psycho cop a saint in comparison. And while Ferrara's take on law enforcement depravity was at least susceptible to screen shock value and religious redemption of sorts back then, Werner Herzog's infinitely darker view of human nature today is so over the top and beyond cynicism, that it's strangely closer to inappropriately laugh-out-loud Tarantino pranksterism.

In what is perhaps less an offbeat detective yarn than an in-your-face, subversive just say yes interminable drug orgy between and even during investigative house calls, the film stars Nicolas Cage as Lt. Terence McDonaugh, a New Orleans avidly do-the-wrong-thing cop who's equally in pursuit of suspects, and stashes of their recreational drugs for his own consumption. Though McDonaugh does experience pangs of conscience of the chivalrous kind intermittently, whenever his hooker girlfriend Frankie (Eva Mendes, who just can't seem to get away from screen slut typecasting) gets knocked around by her johns.

Sporting a sleazy chip on his shoulder, McDonough is more often than not ripping off when not raping whomever he happens to be collaring at the moment, while less than impressing with his own self-styled tag line by way of introduction to assorted incidental perps, 'I'm the last person in the world you want me to be.' A variety of all in a day's work activity for McDonough may include second thoughts about letting an inmate drown in his designer Swiss underwear in perhaps the New Orleans local precinct version of waterboarding; smoking joints with detainees because nobody would ever believe he actually did even if civilian complaints are filed; and stalking young clubbing party animals to relieve them of their money and drugs, while demanding public sex with their dates, in exchange for not arresting them.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

And as the excessively inebriated detective indiscriminately swallows whatever controlled and uncontrolled substances alike come his way, crazed hallucinations eventually kick in. But since we're talking a more tropical setting as opposed to the 1992 Bad Lieutenant New York City original, instead of pink elephants McDonough freaks out on green iguanas imagined everywhere, even at the site of traffic accidents.

In casual disregard of retaining the sanctity of the first film's plot points, or even bothering at all with the fact that southern characters should in the least have southern accents, Herzog likewise dispenses with any pretense of restraint in shackling the lunatic behavior of his main character, that ranges from scary to just plain silly. But Bad Lieutenant is ultimately redeemed - the movie if not the character - by Cage's manically appealing portrayal of a cop who loses his cool and acts like an unbelievable lunatic, on a regular basis.

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20091114100634mill.nb/topstory.html

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Nicolas Cage in 'Bad Lieutenant': Overacting or acting that he's overacting?

2009-11-16T08:10:00.001-08:00

Nicolas Cage is an enigmatic actor whose hits are big and whose misses are gargantuan. Normally, you can recognize which is which far in advance, with just a quick glimpse of a film’s trailer. But his Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has me perplexed. His character seems so unhinged, and Cage seems to be having so much fun, that no matter whether the film is great or gawdawful, I’m genuinely intrigued. There’s a thin line between overacting (bad) and acting that you’re overacting (bizarrely genius), and Cage seems to be straddling it.

Cage recently chatted with the movie website Dark Horizons, and though the interviewer laid off of Cage’s off-screen legal imbroglios, he did encourage the Oscar winner to discuss his craft. Since Cage is a notoriously elusive interview (at least for EW), I only wished Dark Horizons had prodded him more on his career zags and what he looks for in a role. Cage put a happy face on his dips into mainstream and independent fare, explaining that “I need to be a little bit fearful in order to go into it with some energy. You know, I feel that if you’re somewhat uncomfortable or nervous about a role, that means you should do it.” But that sounds actorspeak-y to me. In films like Adaptation, Matchstick Men, and The Weather Man, his vulnerable characters really connected. But there have been other movies that are so schlocky, not only in execution but on a basic script level, as to question what attracts Cage in the first place. Disappointed critics debate his talent and lament his drive, but that’s only because his talent has frequently been so tantalizingly great.

Cage has a bundle of films in the can (including Kick-Ass), so you can expect to see his many sides, shapes, and tastes in the next year. Which actor are you hoping to see? And what are your hopes for Bad Lieutenant? Did Cage’s online interview help explain his career since Leaving Last Vegas? As an actor, where does Cage go from here?

Source: http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/11/11/nicolas-cage-bad-lieutenant/

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New Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Red-Band Clip

2009-11-16T07:52:00.000-08:00

MySpace has just released a brand new red-band clip for the new film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which will be released on November 20. Click below to watch this brand new clip, but only if you're over 18 years of age.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Red-Band Clip

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans stars Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker, Xzibit, Katie Chonacas, Brad Dourif and will be released nationwide on November 20.

Source:http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE1iAa268KgO39

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Eva Mendes Wardobe Malfunction; Nip Slip Exposed in New Photos + Racy Ad (Pictures)

2009-11-16T02:43:00.000-08:00

Sexy actress Eva Mendes and her nipple made a celebrity appearance at the screening of her new movie ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.’ Wearing a sexy loose-fitted white blouse which was unbuttoned exposing her excellent cleavage, the 35 year old star had a wardrobe malfunction exposing a wonderful nipple slip moment on the red carpet at the SVA Theater in New York City on Sunday, November 8th.

Dressed in the white blouse and black skirt, Eva Mendes’ nip slip moment was surely one of the most memorable moments on the carpet and will surely be a good jumpstart to the new movie which also stars Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer and rapper Xzibit.
Eva Mendez, 35, born to Cuban parents, is known for her movie roles in 2 Fast 2 Furious alongside actors Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson, Hitch alongside actor Will Smith, Training Day alongside actor Denzel Washington, among others.
In related news, Eva Mendes is also in the mix of another sexy controversy. Mendez is in a new half naked controversial Calvin Klein Ad which is being labeled as borderline pornography, as reported on EntertainmentRX. The new lingerie billboard ad is causing controversy because it is on display among residents in the area surrounding Soho and Manhattan and shows a half dressed Eva Mendes laying across the bed in sexy lingerie/underwear with a lucky male model for Calvin Klein wrapped around.
Check out Eva Mendes nipple slip photos at the screening of ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’ showing off her cleavage and her racy Calvin Klein Billboard ad.

Source: http://www.hiphoprx.com/2009/11/09/eva-mendes-wardrobe-malfunction-slip-exposed-new-photos-racy-ad-pictures/

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Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans Movie Synopsis

2009-10-20T18:40:00.000-07:00

In Werner Herzog's new film "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs -- while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves (played by Eva Mendes). Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience. The result is a singular masterpiece of filmmaking: equally sad and manically humorous.