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  • Colin Farrell: I Don’t Know How Justin Bieber Handles It

    Colin Farrell has settled down a lot over the past few years, and he credits his son for much of that change.

    “The most significant aspect of my life lives far away from anywhere that the camera is needed,” Farrell told Men’s Health. “You play the part and you do interviews, but you don’t over extend yourself or put a mask on or change your name. Because when you get home, the only thing that matters is your son not eating his turkey sandwiches and he’s not into avocado anymore, so you have to find something new that you eat for lunch.”

    That level of responsibility is a far cry from where Colin Farrell seemed to be when he first hit America’s shores.

    “I had a very particular energy for the first five or six or seven years I spent in America,” Farrell admits now. “I was loud and gregarious and drunk most of the time, and my general mindset was ‘fuck this and fuck that and fuck the other.’”

    Now, Colin Farrell has a much more balanced view of things. And he wonders at how some young megastars handle everything.

    “What most people call success – which is money, fame, fortune, those things – it’s all an illusion, and I couldn’t handle it at that early stage. I don’t know how Justin Bieber has actually behaved as well as he has. You can get away with anything. It’s insane. So you really have to learn.”

    For Farrell, his crazy path was launched when he got booted out of high school. It may seem like an ignominious beginning to a career, but Farrell was happy to be gone.

    “What happened was, the study supervisor put his hands on me,” Farrell explains of his ouster, “and I kind of grabbed him and had a few words. And that was the last in a long list of seemingly small incidents that individually work that harmful or discordant.”

    “It was fucking great. I was so relieved. It was like that Shawshank Redemption moment where Tim Robbins escapes into the river. I was free. I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I knew I didn’t have to play by anyone’s rules. The plan was up to me.”

    Colin Farrell’s philosophy nowadays is simple:

    “Discomfort is a message bearer. Every feeling of discomfort is a moment waiting to be decoded. Something is being invoked inside you, and you need to learn to commune with it or it tends to swallow you up.”

  • Rachel McAdams Runs, Guns, Boxes, Then Pukes

    Rachel McAdams Runs, Guns, Boxes, Then Pukes

    Rachel McAdams puts her all into her roles. She’s not about to let her male costars outpace her.

    Recently, when shooting an intense and physically demanding scene for True Detective, Rachel McAdams was all about keeping up her energy, being in top shape for the part. But something went horribly wrong.

    “That one took about five days,” Rachel McAdams said. “That was pretty intense. I actually puked during that scene. When I was running and reloading my gun—it actually wound up being about 200 yards, it was like two football fields—and I was just going all out and we did it a couple of times.”

    Did McAdams end up picking up a virus on location?

    “It was my own fault,” she explains. “I had been drinking that Emergen-C and going hard to just try to keep my energy up. Not a good combination, the running and that. But I kind of felt badass. Like yeah, let’s do it again. It was really fun though. I like action. I like being thrust into that.”

    Then there was Rachel McAdams’ commitment to her role in Southpaw. While Jake Gyllenhaal certainly had to stay in shape to play a boxer, McAdams was hitting the heavy bag on set, too.

    “I figured [my character] Maureen would understand boxing really well. She’d make it her business to know it. Jake came and watched me box in the ring. I just tried to pick it up. Nowhere near the extent that Jake did. It was an excuse to sweat and get in shape. It’s a total head to toe workout – you do one three-minute round and you’re toast,” McAdams said.

  • Rachel McAdams Shines In Dingy New “True Detective” Character

    Rachel McAdams’ character on the new season of True Detective is the complete opposite of her usual sweet, girl-next-door variety.

    Rachel McAdams plays Ani Bezzerides, a sheriff who has seen much in her years on the force in Los Angeles and has her own baggage to deal with.

    For one thing, Rachel McAdams’ character has a brilliantly disturbing backstory. It seems she was raised in a religious cult and now deals with the pain left behind from her mother’s suicide and her father’s hands-off approach to their relationship.

    In this case, Rachel McAdams deals with it by bottling her emotions and having meaningless hook-ups with a faceless man named Steve.

    Tom Gliatto of People summed it up well when he said, “Of this excellent cast, [Rachel] McAdams fares best by emoting least – as a noir detective should – and letting a stylishly asymmetric haircut signal that she considers herself damaged goods and has gone ahead and put up her own barbed-wire fence.”

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    Rachel McAdams’ character is so intense! it seems like it would be exhausting to play Ani Bezzerides.

    However, Rachel McAdams recently said that when filming was over, she would miss her character.

    She said, “I had a great time shooting it. She was a really fun character to play. It was hard to say goodbye — it was the longest I spent with a character, about six months, since I did theater. I’ll miss playing her.”

    Rachel McAdams added of the show, “There is a lot of plot development, and different webs to follow. I hope people like it, I loved doing it.”

    People do seem to love Rachel McAdams on True Detective! Have you seen her as Ani Bezzerides? What did you think?

  • Vince Vaughn: Actor Voices Support of Guns in Schools

    Actor Vince Vaughn has stirred up some significant controversy due to some comments made in a recent interview with British GQ. Probably the most serious comment of all involves the support of guns in schools.

    “I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home,” the True Detective star said. “We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual. It’s the same reason we have freedom of speech. It’s well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

    Vince Vaughn went on to say that most mass shootings have taken place in places where guns aren’t allowed.

    “All these gun shootings that have gone down in America since 1950, only one or maybe two have happened in non-gun-free zones. Take mass shootings. They’ve only happened in places that don’t allow guns,” he said. “These people are sick in the head and are going to kill innocent people. They are looking to slaughter defenseless human beings. They do not want confrontation.”

    The Wedding Crashers actor minced no words about guns in schools.

    “In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these f—ing schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing 6-year-olds,” he said.

    “You think the politicians that run my country and your country don’t have guns in the schools their kids go to?” Vince Vaughn told British GQ. “They do. And we should be allowed the same rights.”

    The actor doesn’t believe that banning guns will save lives or prevent crimes.

    “Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat,” he claimed. “Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won’t rid the world of criminality.”

    Vince Vaughn makes some very bold statements in the July issue of British GQ.

    What do you think of his outspoken comments?

    Might others listen to Vince Vaughn and his thoughts or has he simply stirred up controversy–and maybe some trouble for himself–with his words?

  • Rachel McAdams Featured in New ‘Halo’ Trailer, Loves New Role in ‘True Detective’

    Rachel McAdams stars in the new season of True Detective, which is set to premiere on June 21st. It’s important for fans, however, not to expect to see her play one of her typical roles.

    “I love that she’s not the girlfriend or the wife,” Rachel McAdams explains in the June issue of Marie Claire about her character.

    McAdams will play a Ventura, California police officer named Ani Bezzerides.

    “She doesn’t really care what everyone thinks; she feels no responsibility for other people’s feelings. She’s not trying to be charming, which isn’t always the case with a leading lady,” Rachel McAdams says.

    McAdams is known for playing characters with an abundance of charm.

    The first season of True Detective was actually criticized for not featuring more complex female characters. Michelle Monaghan played the most prominent female character–Detective Mary Hart. She was Woody Harrelson’s wife.

    Rachel McAdams’s character investigates a murder in the new season of the show.

    Known for films including The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Vow, and A Most Wanted Man, Rachel McAdams will once again grace the big screen in Aloha later in May.

    Will fans find it difficult to take McAdams seriously in this complex role in True Detective after seeing her in films like these?

    Will you be tuning in to catch Rachel McAdams as Officer Ani Bezzerides on True Detective beginning on June 21st?

  • Rachel McAdams Cast in “True Detective”

    Rachel McAdams Cast in “True Detective”

    Mean Girls actress Rachel McAdams has been cast in the second season of HBO’s hit police drama True Detective.

    McAdams will play Ani Bezzerides, a by-the-book Ventura County, California Sheriff’s detective whose unyielding ethics cause conflict with her contemporaries.

    McAdams will join Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows star Kelly Reilly, who will play Jordan, a washed-up D-list actress who’s married to a criminal entrepreneur called Frank Semyon, who is played by Vince Vaughn.

    Friday Night Lights and John Carter star Taylor Kitsch has also been confirmed as one of the show’s male leads. Kitsch will portray a character named Paul Woodrugh, a war vet and a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer with a past.

    Colin Farrell was cast as Ray Velcoro, a corrupt detective with conflicting allegiances between his crooked bosses and the mobster who has him under his thumb.

    True Detective season one starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and concerned a hunt for a supernatural serial killer named the Yellow King across Louisiana for 17 years. McConaughey’s popular character, Detective Rustin Spencer “Rust” Cohle, has been parodied:

    Here is a trailer for True Detective season one:

    The second season of the series will will feature eight episodes, all which will be written by series creator Nic Pizzolatto.

    HBO’s official logline for season two of the show reads, “Three police officers and a career criminal must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder.” Production on the season has commenced, with HBO shooting for a summer broadcast.

    In related McAdams news, the had once dated her The Notebook costar Ryan Gosling. Though, director Nick Cassavetes told VH1 in July, that things weren’t so easy on set between the two.

    Cassavetes remarked, “Maybe I’m not supposed to tell this story, but they were really not getting along one day on set. Really not. And Ryan came to me, and there’s 150 people standing in this big scene, and he says, ‘Nick come here.’ And he’s doing a scene with Rachel and he says, ‘Would you take her out of here and bring in another actress to read off camera with me?’ I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I can’t. I can’t do it with her. I’m just not getting anything from this.’”

  • Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch and Kelly Reilly Join the Cast of ‘True Detective’

    Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch and Kelly Reilly have joined the cast of True Detective.

    HBO announced the addition of the threesome for the series’ second season on Monday. They will join Colin Farrell, who is set to play a dirty police officer, and Vince Vaughn.

    According to HBO, McAdams will play Ani Bezzerides, an officer for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department “whose uncompromising ethics put her at odds with others and the system she serves,” according to the network’s press release.

    Kitsch’s character, Paul Woodrugh, is a veteran and California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer. Woodrugh is “running from a difficult past and the sudden glare of a scandal that never happened.”

    Reilly will play a struggling actress and the wife of Vince Vaughn’s character, Frank Semyon.

    Semyon is “a criminal and entrepreneur in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner.”

    Kitsch told AdWeek last month that he was “really excited” to get started, as rumors swirled that he would be part of the hit series.

    “I’ve just been prepping. It’s been almost a full year since I’ve been on camera, so I’m itching, man,” he said. “I’m overdue. You’ve just got to grind it out. Even taking this year off was, I mean you want to work, but you also don’t want to just water it down and work for the sake of working. So, it was tough to sit a year out, keeping a finger crossed that I was going to get True.”

  • Rachel McAdams Will Join “True Detective”

    Rachel McAdams Will Join “True Detective”

    Rachel McAdams is set to join the cast of True Detective for season two.

    The first season of True Detective was set in Louisiana and starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

    The season was centered around a series of satanic murders.

    This season will see Rachel McAdams, along with Taylor Kitsch and Kelly Reilly, join the likes of Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn in California.

    Rachel McAdams’ character, Ani Bezzerides, is an officer for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department “whose uncompromising ethics put her at odds with others and the system she serves,” according to HBO’s announcement about the show.

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    Kelly Reilly will play a burned out D-list actress. She will be the wife of Vince Vaughn’s character, Frank Semyon, who is “a criminal and entrepreneur in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner.”

    Taylor Kitsch will play Paul Woodrugh, a military veteran and California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer. Woodrugh, according to the same press release, is “running from a difficult past and the sudden glare of a scandal that never happened.”

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    He told Ad Week of his new project with Rachel McAdams on True Detective, “Yeah, I’m really excited. I’ve just been prepping. It’s been almost a full year since I’ve been on camera, so I’m itching, man. I’m overdue. You’ve just got to grind it out. Even taking this year off was, I mean you want to work, but you also don’t want to just water it down and work for the sake of working. So, it was tough to sit a year out, keeping a finger crossed that I was going to get True.”

    Colin Farrell is set to play the difficult part of a compromised police officer.

    Fast & Furious director Justin Lin is slated to direct the first two episodes. Wow. With that kind of casting and directorship, this is sure to be an incredibly entertaining season of True Detective!

    What do you think of HBO choosing Rachel McAdams for the new season of True Detective?

  • Rachel McAdams To Join The Cast Of ‘True Detective’

    Rachel McAdams is the newest member of the cast of HBO’s True Detective.

    The Notebook star has signed on to play the role of Detective Ani Bezzerides, who is described as “a Ventura County sheriff’s detective whose uncompromising ethics put her at odds with others and the system she serves,” for the upcoming second season of the series.

    Taylor Kitsch and Kelly Reilly have also been confirmed for roles on the show, and will join previously announced actors Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn.

    Season one of True Detective premiered in January 2014, and follows an anthology format. This means that season one stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Monaghan will not be returning for season two. Season one was an instant hit and won five Primetime Emmy awards.

    According to HBO, the new eight-episode season will be produced in California and will follow three detectives Ani Bezzerides (McAdams), Ray Velcoro (Farrell), and Paul Woodrugh (Kitsch). The series will also follow Vaughn, who is described as a “a career criminal whose business partner is murdered,” and Reilly, who will play Vaughn’s wife.

    A premiere date for season two has not been announced, but it will take place sometime in 2015.

    Are you excited to see Rachel McAdams in the new season? Leave your comments below.

  • True Detective Season 2 Will Star Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell

    The ball has landed on what felt like a roulette wheel of possible names for the second season of HBO’s immensely popular series True Detective. After many rumors and much speculation, HBO has announced that season two will star Vince Vaughn and Colin Farrell.

    Farrell will play Ray Velcoro, “a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his masters in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him.”

    Vaughn will play “Frank Semyon, a career criminal in danger of losing his empire when his move into legitimate enterprise is upended by the murder of a business partner.”

    HBO is officially describing the plotline as “three police officers and a career criminal must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder.” Show creator Nic Pizzolatto has said in the past that the second season would be set in California and feature “hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system.”

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    So – two leads down, one to go? Pizzolatto has said that there are three leads this time around, and that one of them is female. Names that have been rumored for that coveted role include Rosario Dawson, Kelly Reilly, Jessica Biel, Malin Akerman, Abigail Spencer, Oona Chaplin, Jaimie Alexander and Brit Marling. According to Deadline, those eight actresses were invited to read for Pizzolatto last Thursday.

    The announced cast is surely polarizing, judging by the internet reaction. ‘Vaughn and Farrell’ doesn’t engender the same level of excitement as ‘McConaughey and Harrelson’ for most – but it’ll be interesting to see what an actor like Vaughn can do with a role like this. If you’re skeptical about the casting decision, it would be smart to remember that some things only make sense once you see it on the screen.

    Vince Vaughn? Seriously? What’s next, giving the dad from Malcolm in the Middle his own drama?, says one redditor in a thread about the announcement.

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  • True Detective Season Two Brings Colin Farrell Into the Mix

    True Detective Season Two Brings Colin Farrell Into the Mix

    After the success of season one, HBO’s True Detective will return with a few new additions, including Irish actor Colin Farrell.

    “I’m doing the second series,” the 38-year-old told Sunday World. “I’m so excited.”

    HBO has not yet confirmed the statement but in July it was reported that Farrell was “deep in negotiations” to play a role on the show.

    Farrell, who was recently seen in Saving Mr. Banks and Winter’s Tale, will follow the success of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson from the first season. The show earned twelve Emmy nominations, including one for each of the male leads, and won five.

    The program format, which wraps up in a single abbreviated season, makes it easy for big-name actors to commit to the show.

    Another name that has been floated for season two is Taylor Kitsch, a Canadian actor best known for his role in NBC’s Friday Night Lights. Rumors also surround role possibilities for Vince Vaughn (Swingers, Dodgeball) and Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men).

    But for Farrell, who has been in (Minority Report) out (Total Recall) of stardom greatness, this could be the show that solidifies his acting chops. After all, it didn’t seem to hurt McConaughey who gained more respect through his role on on the show (and, around the same time, in Dallas Buyers Club).

    Nic Pizzolatto, creator of True Detective, told Hitfix that if anything about season one has taught him anything it’s that he needs to keep “being strange” and not the play the next season “straight.”

    Pizzolatto has also hinted that season two is about “hard women, bad men, and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system.”

    Recently, Pizzolatto began to expand on season two saying, “Right now, we’re working with three leads…The characters are all new, but I’m deeply in love with each of them. We’ve got the entire series broken out with a couple of scripts, and we’ll probably start casting in earnest in the coming months.”

    Pizzolatta also commented on the setting for season two.

    “…It takes place in California — not Los Angeles, but some of the much lesser known venues of California — and we’re going to try to capture a certain psychosphere ambiance of the place, much like we did in season one.”

    No official release date for season two has been announced.

  • Rust Cohle Explains Time as a Flat Circle to Little Kids

    Rust Cohle Explains Time as a Flat Circle to Little Kids

    HBO’s True Detective ended its first season last month and when the credits rolled, it was clear that we had all just watched something singular–an experience that was going to have a profound effect on not only the future of scripted television, but pop culture.

    I mean, television just hasn’t ever had a character quite like Rust Cohle.

    If you watched the series (and even if you didn’t), you’re probably well-aware of Cohle’s philosophical musings. You’ve probably seen a grizzled Matthew McConaughey, sitting behind a table, drinking Lone Star beer and talking about how time is a flat circle.

    Ok, now imagine that table was tiny and Cohle was talking to kids instead of detectives.

    Comedian Ross Marquand makes this a reality in a spoof of those AT&T commercials–you know the ones. Watch out for a truly spectacular McConaughey impression.

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  • “True Detective” Deleted Scene Released

    “True Detective” Deleted Scene Released

    “True Detective” captivated us for weeks during its first season on HBO–so much that HBO Go crashed because so many people were trying to tune in for the finale last Sunday–and now us fans are desperate to get our hands on anything extra from the show. Good news, then: a deleted scene has just been released that shows Rust’s breakup with girlfriend Lori.

    While it’s not the most action-packed scene on the show–that title goes to the continuous-shot in the episode where Rust goes back to his undercover days with a group of bikers–it’s interesting enough, and makes one wonder why it got cut, especially since his relationship with Lori ends without much explanation.

    Check out the scene below and look for the DVD–which promises extras like this one–on June 10.

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  • Matthew McConaughey Spoofed by ‘SNL’s’ Taran Killam

    Matthew McConaughey was the subject of an SNL spoof on Saturday by cast member Taran Killam, in what had to have been one of the very best spoofs ever of the handsome actor. Listening to the SNL episode in bed, I was forced to turn around and look at the screen, wondering why on earth McConaughey was making fun of himself like that. It, of course, wasn’t the actor, but Killam instead. The voice impersonation was spot on. The physical mannerisms were pretty accurate as well.

    Killam sat down next to ‘Weekend Update’ costar Colin Jost, and wore a white tux similar to the one McConaughey wore to last Sunday’s Oscars. “McConaughey” quickly rebuffed Jost’s congratulations on his Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club.

    “Don’t congratulate me. Congratulate the man I was a week ago,” Killam as McConaughey interrupted. “Congratulate the man I’m chasing. Congratulate the man who never existed.”

    “And who is that?” Jost asked.

    “Me,” McConaughey replied.

    It will definitely be fun to learn what Matthew McConaughey says about the spoof when he first sees a video clip of it. Known for having a pretty decent sense of humor, it’s likely the actor will take it well.

    SNL was hosted by Lena Dunham on Saturday night.

    She posted the following Instagram photo to her page following rehearsals with some of the ladies at SNL. She dubbed it ‘Girl pile in studio 8H.’

    The National was the musical guest this weekend.

    If you missed SNL you have to check out the videos as they start to hit YouTube and Twitter in the next day or two. It’s absolutely imperative that anyone who appreciates impersonations–or just Matthew McConaughey or Taran Killim–check out the hilarious spoof the comedian did of the True Detective star. While the clip plays, just close your eyes for a few seconds. You will be certain McConaughey himself is on SNL.

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  • Matthew McConaughey Not Returning To True Detective

    With the Oscar statue still hot in his hand, Matthew McConaughey has given fans an update on his future plans, and unfortunately for some, he won’t be returning to the HBO series True Detective for a second season. But that was the plan from the very beginning, he said.

    “No, I won’t be back for season two,” said McConaughey backstage at the Oscars. “Season one was finite. It’s probably airing right now. Has anyone seen it? I made the thing….and I’m not sure what happens.”

    Clearly, the 44 year old actor is having the best year of his career, and he’s had scene stealing performances in films like the Wolf of Wall Street, but his character in True Detective was just as fun to play, he said, because the character had a personal obsession that was clearly defined in the writing, so he knew exactly how he was going to play it.

    McConaughey says he tries to find characters who have an obsession of some sort, because he can really bring out all of the layers and complex personality traits of someone who has a tunnel-vision-way of looking at the world.

    “You know, I’ve been able to find such clearly identifiable characters, whether it’s Mark Hanna in Wolf of Wall Street or Ron Woodruff in Dallas Buyers Club,” he said.

    “Look at Dallas in Magic Mike and Joe in Killer Joe, these are characters with such clear obsessions. I’ve said this before, but that’s what I’ve been choosing: Somebody who I could get drunk on their obsessions. Characters that live on the fringe, they’re all a little bit on the outskirts of civilization. I find a certain ownership and freedom in that.”

    The actor didn’t say exactly why he wasn’t returning to the show, but it’s safe to assume he’s busier these days and more in demand than he’s ever been before, so he’ll probably spend most of his time working on projects for the big screen.

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  • HBO GO on the PS3 Finally a Reality, Still Waiting on a PS4 App

    HBO GO on the PS3 Finally a Reality, Still Waiting on a PS4 App

    In oh, really, that wasn’t a thing already? news, today is the day that HBO GO, HBO’s on-demand streaming video app, finally lands on the PS3.

    “Watch every episode of every season of the HBO’s best shows, including True Detective, Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones. Speaking of Game of Thrones, with the season 4 premiere airing on April 6th, you’ve got more than a month to get caught up on the first three amazing seasons.”

    Yeah, you have plenty of time to catch up on Game of Thrones. The season finale of True Detective is next week, so I suggest you get your ass in gear and binge on the first seven episodes of that before you take a trip to Westeros. That merely a suggestion–carry on as you wish.

    HBO first announced that the PS3 would finally get an HBO GO app back in January.

    For all the PS4 owners out there–sorry. You’re going to have to wait a little bit longer–or maybe a lot longer. SVP of business development Phil Rosenberg would only say this about the future of HBO GO on the PS4:

    “We are also working diligently with HBO to bring the HBO GO app to PS4.”

    Of course, HBO GO isn’t the only high-profile app that the PS4 is still lacking.

    Ok. But for PS3 owners with HBO subscriptions AND a cable subscription (ugh), stream away.

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  • True Detective Receives Great Response From Fans

    True Detective, a new television series on HBO, premiered last night and is already a smash hit,

    The show follows two detectives Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Harrelson) who are paired together to solve one of Louisiana’s most grisly murders. The show spans from 1995, when the duo began investigating the murder, until 2012, when the case was re-opened.

    Harrelson previously starred on an HBO movie Game Change, and he says that his previous work with HBO made the decision to join True Detective an easy one.

    “There’s just no finer organization making amazing stuff out there than HBO. So it’s, like, a privilege to work with them,” Harrelson revealed. “And, you know, the other part of that is just the people on this stage, you know. I really I love Matthew. He’s my brother. Phenomenal, amazing person.”

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    While we may not see McConaughey on television often, he admits that he has nothing against doing television series. “It’s a different time in television,” McConaughey said. “It’s not there’s not that feeling of if you’re having a successful film career and somebody brings up something on television we didn’t know, at the time when I got it, where it was going to be. All I knew is I read the first two episodes, and I was in. And I was just, at the time, looking for quality.”

    Harrelson and McConaughey’s characters are portrayed as complete opposites. While McConaughey was originally selected to play the part of Hart, he says that the other character is the one that kept speaking to him. “It came in, and I was supposed to look at the role of Hart. I read the role of Hart. I was like I understood objectively why they would be coming to me with the role of Hart. I understood that, from probably closer to some of my past work,” he said. “But Cohle was the voice that I remember writing down, ‘I can’t wait to turn the page and hear what’s coming out of this guy’s mouth. It’s got fire on it every time.’”

    Harrelson and McConaughey have been off-screen friends for a long-time, and even admit to finishing each other’s sentences. However, on the show, they had a very restrained and tense relationship, which ultimately challenged their off-screen friendship.

    “With this project we didn’t use a lot of our normal kind of shorthand, the way we kind of finish each other’s sentences and shit,” Harrelson explained. “He was an island. And he is one of the most gregarious, awesome guys I know, but in this he was fully in character, and he was very much an island.”

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  • Woody Harrelson Returns To TV On HBO Series

    Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson returned to television for a new HBO series True Detective, which premiered on Sunday.

    Rust Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin Hart (Harrelson) are paired together to solve one of Louisiana’s most grisly murders. The show spans from 1995, when the duo began investigating the murder, until 2012, when the case was re-opened.

    “It’s a whodunnit for the murder case, but what you’re going to see throughout is who these two guys are, and when you see them in 2012, how the hell did they get there and what happened in the interim,” McConaughey said.

    “I’m still surprised that this is a series I’m part of,” said Harrelson. “When my agent told me that Matthew was doing this series, and asked if I wanted to read (the script), I was like: ‘Matthew’s doing a series? A series?’ It just seemed so unlikely.”

    Surprisingly, Harrelson’s character was originally offered to McConaughey. “They did offer the Hart part originally to him (McConaughey), but he said he wanted to be Cohle. He said he just kept hearing the voice of that character in his head,” Harrelson said.

    Harrelson revealed a lot of similarities between himself and his character. “There are many similarities, not the least of which is that he really loves his family,” Harrelson said. McConaughey’s character, on the other hand, is not the least bit like McConaughey. “He’s not good with civilization in society. He doesn’t know how to have an improvised moment. He’s not wired like that. He’s not trying to be antisocial. He’s just a bit of an outlawed monk,” McConaughey said.

    McConaughey and Harrelson previously co-starred in the 1999 comedy EDtv and 2008’s indie comedy Surfer, Dude. They admitted that it was hard to not play characters who were buddies, but were instead had a very tense relationship. “We reciprocate, and that’s part of the beauty of our relationship. We add onto each other. We affirm each other… but (in this show), we’re not cozying up to each other,” McConaughey said.

    So far, fans seem to love the series, and took to Twitter to express their excitement.

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  • Game Of Thrones Announces The Premiere Date For Season 4

    Fans of the fantasy world of HBO’s Game Of Thrones can start getting excited now. An official premiere date has finally been set for the fourth season of the critically acclaimed show that has also become one of the biggest fan favorites of all time.

    The fourth season of Game Of Thrones will premiere on April 6th. It will be followed by the third season premiere of Veep, and the new comedy from Mike Judge called Silicon Valley.

    While plot details have not been revealed yet, fans can get a glimpse of what the new season will be like with the preview that will be show before the series premiere of True Detective this Sunday. With HBO’s hit comedy Girls returning with two episodes this Sunday, people will likely be tuning into the network all night.

    Meanwhile, Game Of Thrones‘ young star Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, is also set to play the part of Sarah Connor in the upcoming Terminator film. There is no release date yet for the film, but sometime in 2015 is likely. Coincidentally, her co-star on Game Of Thrones Lena Headey already played Sarah Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the show that aired on Fox.

    The Game Of Thrones television series is based on the book series by George R.R. Martin called “A Song Of Ice And Fire,” and it is a series that is still being written. The format of the show has translated to about two seasons per book so far.

    The fourth season is expected to chart the events chronicled in the latter half of the Martin’s sprawling third book in the series, “A Storm of Swords,” but will also introduce characters and occurrences from other novels.

    Fans, be sure to tune into HBO at 9 p.m. on April 6th to catch an all-new season of Game Of Thrones.

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  • True Detective Gets Another Great Trailer – HBO Drama to Premiere in January

    In January, HBO will premiere a new series called True Detective. It stars Matthews McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart (yep, Rust Cohle), who through flashbacks convey the story of a bizarre, ritualistic murder case from nearly 20 years ago.

    If that doesn’t hook you and you need more convincing, HBO has just released the second trailer for the series and it’s pretty great.

    If you want more, HBO has an interestingly mysterious little site for the series. It’s called DarknessBecomesYou.com. Yeah, I’m looking forward to this one.

    Here’s HBO’s full synopsis:

    In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they’d left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.

    Oh, and you can also watch the show’s first trailer.

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  • True Detective, HBO’s New Drama, Gets an Official Trailer

    HBO is all about their original series set in backwoods Louisiana with “True” in the title – and now that one is ending, they’ve got another one to take its place.

    Except this one isn’t about vampires. It’s about a bizarre ritualistic murder and it stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey as detectives who might just live on the darker side of the law.

    It’s called True Detective, and HBO has just released the first trailer:

    Here’s HBO’s official synopsis:

    In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they’d left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.

    I mean, this sounds awesome. The first trailer is awesome. But to be completely honest, HBO had me at “starring Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle.” Rust Cohle? Now that’s just way too good.

    Expect True Detective to hit the HBO lineup in January of 2014. The first season will run for 8 episodes. Hopefully, this can be the next great HBO series. I’ve got high hopes for this one.

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