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Report from the Berlin premiere of Inglourious Basterds

Sebastian — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:49:45 +0000

“Dankeschoen!” he said, visibly moved, after several minutes of applause. A Basterd’s work well done, I thought, when the lights went on and Quentin Tarantino had just ended the second world war – on celluloid. Fast forward two or so hours earlier. The Berlin premiere of Inglourious Basterds, probably the movie’s biggest worldwide (aside from the one in Cannes a few weeks ago) was one hell of an event. Fans had lined up outside the ...

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New Rules

Sebastian — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:36:33 +0000

I’m a big fan of Wired magazine, personally. Not because I’m a tech nerd, but because it’s a smart publication with entertaining and informative articles about aspects of our modern society that are relevant, even though at the time of publication we might not quite believe it yet. And applause to their latest concoction, which they’ve titled “New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans“, a funny little index of advice from such highly evolved people ...

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New Inglourious Basterds poster with a pile of dead Nazis?

Sebastian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:35:01 +0000

“A Basterd’s work is never done” exlaims the new poster for Inglourious Basterds that just premiered internet-wise on Yahoo Movies. It shows Brad Pitt‘s Aldo Raine on a pile of dead Nazi soldiers. Click here to check it out. UPDATE: For your reading pleasure, Variety has a full-on Q&A with the man himself! Quentin talks a lot about the movie, why its actually a minute longer than the version shown in Cannes and his take ...

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More Brad ain’t bad

Sebastian — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:26:33 +0000

Two things you can rely on these days: there’s no shortage in the blogosphere of heated debates about remakes, “reimaginings” and various comic book and super hero movies. The other is The Playlist’s reliable scouting ability, which comes in the form of an until now unseen picture of Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds. Read their post for a few quotes on why it took so many years for this epic to hit the theaters ...

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Gorgeous and Inglourious: Melanie Laurent is a star Basterd

Sebastian — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:52:40 +0000

If you think Inglourious Basterds is primarily a Brad Pitt movie, think again. While Aldo Raine is certainly the leader of the pack the Germans call The Basterds, bringing pain and suffering behind enemy lines in Nazi-Occupied France, its not what the movie is all about. This movie is about a revenge of a whole different sort, and it’s Shosanna‘s revenge. Melanie Laurent is Shosanna, and Shosanna is the central character in Inglourious Basterds. ...

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Diane Kruger is a Basterd, too

Sebastian — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:40:35 +0000

Ah, so the plot thickens. Brad Pitt and Eli Roth (which we brought to you exclusively) are Basterds already, and so is Diane Kruger, now. Check it out below (or here at TwitPic). The poster comes exclusively from the OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE of Inglourious Basterds (and their Twitter feed you should follow @TheRealBasterds). Diane Kruger plays German moviestar Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglourious Basterds, a role that has been described as a secret agent, ...

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Brad Pitt is a Basterd

Sebastian — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:18:58 +0000

It’s labor day in most parts of the world (at least I think) and I didn’t even think there might be anything to write about at the end of this long and event-free friday, but the folks at AICN are always good for a surprise. It comes in the form of one badass teaser poster for Inglourious Basterds, featuring Aldo Raine (aka Brad Pitt) in all his neck-scar (in)glory. Take a click below to ...

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Extended Inglourious Basterds American Idol footage hits

Sebastian — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:18:19 +0000

Oh what a long day, don’t get me started. I was looking forward to watching a downloaded version of the American Idol craziness when something ended up in my inbox. First I thought well isn’t that just the Basterds footage they showed on American Idol, but no. The Playlist, a website you absolutely must bookmark, got this via Film School Rejects, and it is … fasten your seatbelts … an extended version of Inglourious ...

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Inglourious what?

Sebastian — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:49:07 +0000

Has Quentin Tarantino made movies before? How do you actually pronounce Inglourious Basterds? Does the movie take place during World War II? Is it a movie about World War II? Find out below, in the excerpt from the Charlie Rose show:

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It’s like Reservoir Dogs… but with Nazis!

Sebastian — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:44:16 +0000

I hope you had some great holidays, make sure you read our christmas message. It features a really cool picture from the set, and an old fella in a white beard, you know who I’m talking about, are you not? We’re of course not sleeping with our bellies full of christmas dinners, and so we have two goodies for you, active as we are. First up, there’s a clip of the Charlie Rose show, where ...

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Tarantino shoots some Basterds in Paris

Sebastian — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:22:42 +0000

For only two days, Quentin Tarantino will shoot scenes for Inglourious Basterds in Paris, even though most, if i not all, of the movie takes place in France. Seen below is a picture published in Le Figaro, one of France’s biggest newspapers. On a sidenote, some tabloids have mentioned Brad Pitt has already wrapped his scenes for the film, which will probably be shooting until the end of January. Update: Our friends at Filmgeek.fr have ...

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Weekend round-up

Sebastian — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:43:48 +0000

While we’re still drooling over the first two official stills from Inglourious Basterds, let me just fill you in on a few other noteworthy things that one might find in the googleverse. The yellow press is full of Brad Pitt‘s ‘stache, which we are confident will set a new trend and bring that type of facial hair the reputation it deserves. Pitt is also being quoted about Inglourious Basterds, calling it “outrageous, the World ...

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Inglourious Basterds still images surface

Sebastian — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:50:14 +0000

It was only a matter of time, was it. You thought December started somewhat slow in the Inglourious Basterds news department? I thought so, too. But thanks to filmz.ru (thanks to equilibrium blog for the heads up, kudos to the Cinefacts forums), we can see two pictures from the film in full glory, one showing Brad Pitt as Aldo Raine (check out his character profile) adressing soldiers (we also get to see his infamous ...

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Bring on the moustache, Brad Pitt

Sebastian — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:00:57 +0000

Monday’s random commentary. While we would never go as far as calling him “Pitt-ler”, as some unfortunate editorial has done, and which we find inappropriate, we do fully support Brad Pitt‘s crusade of bringing back the moustache. Not only are they underappreciated and undeservingly shunned by the mainstream, they are just plainly badass (Magnum, Wyatt Earp, etc). Aldo Raine will go down as a movie character that re-started the moustache as fashionable, and I wholly ...

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Little update

Sebastian — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:42:21 +0000

It’s some sort of a slow week again, in terms of Inglourious Basterds (note that we’re no longer calling it Inglorious Bastards anymore) at least, but that’s not too bad. While I’m busy with school and some Spaghetti Western Database pre-christmas work, and also some issues in the Forum, unfortunately, I’m sure our man from Hollywood is busy up in Berlin yelling “aaaaction” into the ears of Brad Pitt and the other Basterds. We ...

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A good day to bring children to a Tarantino set

Sebastian — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:16:08 +0000

What would be a good day to bring little children to a Tarantino film set, you might ask yourself (or probably not, since… why would you ask yourself that, but please let’s just assume you have 20 kids or so). To find an answer, investigative journalists of the most investigative sort have asked a very famous mother. Angelina Jolie, wife of Brad Pitt (yes the one who will bring the mustache back into the ...

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Tarantino filming nights with his Basterds in Nauen, Germany

Sebastian — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:15:19 +0000

Here’s a little update on the production status of Inglourious Basterds. Currently, the whole crew is in a small town called Nauen, Germany where preparations are on the way for a few night time shoots dealing with key scenes involving the Basterds, Aldo Raine, von Hammersmark and lots of bullets flying. A traditional looking street has been turned into that of an old french town called Nadine, and one of the houses disguised as ...

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Schweiger talks Basterds, and more poster mock-ups

Sebastian — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:27:22 +0000

A couple weeks ago, we (via the black hole that is the IMDB) leaked a mock poster for (what was then still called) Inglorious Bastards (click here to check it out, it’s the red one with the eagle and the bullet hole on the swastika, which I personally thought was a cool poster idea). Now, a few more concept artwork ideas have leaked onto the net. Heavily photoshopped, very bad looking, but nevertheless interesting, ...

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Tarantino’s Basterds use water cannons against papparazzi

Sebastian — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:36:42 +0000

I always wanted to write this headline. As Welt Online reports, the Inglourious Basterds security crew was using water cannons to fend of curious papparazzi at the current Fort Hahneberg (Spandau, Germany) set, where some sort of execution scene was being filmed. The whole set was of course sealed of hermetically on a wide area, but you know those paps…. they want pictures of Brad no matter what…. Stay tuned. (thanks to David for ...

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First look at Aldo Raine

Sebastian — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:52:03 +0000

Let me introduce you to the principal Basterd, the head honcho Basterd, most Inglourious of all Basterds, Lt. Aldo Raine (insert applause here). We’ve got a first look at Brad Pitt in full resistance fighter gear for you. Remember, this ain’t your Warner Brothers 1950s WW2 hero, this is a hillbilly straight from the mountains of Tennessee, a man with a scar around his neck that “will never once be mentioned,” this is Brad ...

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Basterds start training

Sebastian — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:23:23 +0000

From what we can gather, rehearsing on Inglorious Basterds started today, after a joint dinner with cast and crew in Berlin yesterday, that was well-received by some paparazzis (we suspect pictures of a drunk Til Schweiger very soon, probably). Reportedly, shooting will begin in the German state of Saxony on October 6th already, in an area called the Elbsandstein mountains (rumor) and production will then move to Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam near Berlin on ...

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Has Quentin found his Shosanna?

Sebastian — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:24:14 +0000

Word around the campfire for some time has been that Quentin Tarantino wanted somebody less famous and “fresh” for the role of Shosanna, the female lead in Inglorious Bastards. The character description calls for a French girl approximately 20 years old or even younger, feisty enough to talk face to face with Nazi head honchos and smart enough to royally outsmart them. Is French actress and Cesar Award winner Melanie Laurent the one? According ...

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Diane Kruger is von Hammersmark in Inglorious Bastards

Sebastian — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:15:34 +0000

[Update: A full and more accurate quote of Ms Kruger sais "I just received a call from Quentin Tarantino, asking me to be in his next movie." She is currently in negotiations, but has not signed up for the movie. We apologize for our premature reporting. Maybe her looks stunned me too much.] One of the central characters in Inglorious Bastards will be a German movie star called Bridget von Hammersmark in the script. People ...

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Kinski, Pegg and Krumholtz to join Brad Pitt?

Sebastian — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:19:52 +0000

Who thought there was going to be some time to catch a breath after we could confirm Brad Pitt for Inglorious Bastards last night? I did and I was wrong! Today reports hit that Quentin Tarantino is considering another fistful of colorful characters to fill a few more yet unoccupied seats in the Inglorious Bastards star bus. In talks are Nastassja Kinski (daughter of the legendary German actor Klaus Kinski) as Third Reich movie ...

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Brad Pitt confirmed for Inglorious Bastards role

Sebastian — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:00:23 +0000

We just got this confirmed, and get ready to be excited! Brad Pitt will play Lt. Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglorious Bastards. He’s been in talks for a while now and I’m happy to report that he’s in! Raine is a real Tennesseean badass leading a platoon of all-jewish, nazi-scalping specialists behind enemy lines in France. Joining him (confirmed so far) are Eli Roth as Sgt Donowitz and B.J. Nowak as Private Utivich. ...

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Some Inglorious Bastards casting news

Sebastian — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:34:21 +0000

EW reports that Brad Pitt is in fact in negotations to star as the head bastard, while rumors about Leonardo DiCaprio seem to be false. We’ll keep you posted about all Inglorious Bastards news. On a sidenote, our Facebook group just reached the magic 100, so if you’re on facebook, check out our Facebook group. And to al those who get to see Hell Ride tonight, I’m so damn jealous!

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Basterds a masterpiece

Sebastian — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:03:49 +0000

I love it when I can post news that’s not even news, but just quotable stuff. Hollyscoop for example quotes Quentin on Inglorious Bastards. They ran into our man QT at the premiere of the upcoming Kevin Costner movie Swing Vote and tried to get more information on Inglorious Bastards casting (Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are rumored to be in talks, to refresh your memory). “Expect a masterpiece” is the quote I’m happily ...

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Leonardo DiCaprio in Inglorious Bastards as The Jew Hunter?

Sebastian — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:37:30 +0000

Say what you want, but this is getting more and more exciting every day. It seems like Quentin Tarantino, while in France to convince the lucky husband of Angelina “I’m more popular than my dad” Jolie, Brad Pitt to play the leader of the Inglorious Bastards, Lt. Aldo Raine, is also courting no other than Leonardo DiCaprio (who would be new in Tarantinoland) for a role that’s already notorious – among the pitiful souls ...

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Tarantino wants Pitt, why not Brangelina?

Sebastian — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:16:17 +0000

The only substiantial casting rumor that comes out of the Inglorious Bastards rumor mills these days is Brad Pitt. And if you believe the tabloids, our man Quentin is flying into France to meet the new father of two twins to try and convince him. I would go a step further and cast the whole Brangelina package, because if you cast Brad, we’ll all have to bring our girlfriends to see Inglorious Bastards because ...

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Inglorious Bastards to shoot in Berlin this fall

Sebastian — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:05:09 +0000

While you’re thinking “the movie takes place in France, aren’t they shooting it in the Normandy or something?”, it should be noted that Inglorious Bastards is neither a remake of The Longest Day, nor will you be able to tell green grass in northern Germany from that of green grass in France. Please excuse my horrible humor this morning. Quentin Tarantino‘s script is currently floating the internets, turning curious teenagers into duracell bunnies, and ...

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