Paul Thomas Anderson's New Movie Is Shooting This Month

Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

We've sent a man to the moon and built a robot that can play ping-pong, yet we still have absolutely no idea what to say to impress a potential date. Tells us a lot about how inept the human race really is. But since that's the way the world seems to work, why bother trawling through countless lists of "100 Chat-Up Lines 100 Percent Guaranteed To Work and Aren't Creepy At All" when you can just pick up some tips from your favourite movie characters? I mean, they might not (probably won't) work, but at least you'll be memorable.

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For devout PTA fans, The Master came a painfully slow five years afterThere Will Be Blood. However, his next film, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, is already going into production, barely a year after The Master's release (thumbs up, Paul!) with Cigarettes & Red Vines reporting that shooting will begin this month (thumbs up, everybody!).

Joaquin Phoenix will be reteaming with Paul Thomas Anderson (who eventually decided that Robert Downey Jr, previously cast, wasn't right for the role) for their second collaboration, a 1960s LA-set crime drama which follows "drug-fuelLed detective Larry 'Doc' Sportello who investigates a kidnapping case," according to IMDb. Presumably Phoenix will take the leading role; there are also rumours that Charlize Theron will appear, although nothing is concrete.

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No Longer Relevant TV Stars Want Your Money

Last week, Zach Braff was reminding us all of his BFFship with Scrubs co-star Donald Faison in a bid to get us to fund his new movie on Kickstarter, now Melissa Joan Hart (aka Sabrina the Teenage Witch) is expecting us to fork over $2 million to fund her new star vehicle, Darci's Walk of Shame, even though she's explicitly stated there will be "No magic. No black cat." While Braff's project and the recent Veronica Mars Kickstarter reached their $2 million goals within a couple of days, Hart's project is still lingering on $50,000 after several weeks. Sorry to break it you Melissa, but no black cat, no money bay-bay.

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The “look at my shyeet” and Disney-girls-gone-bad madness of Spring Breakers has finally introduced Harmony Korine to the mainstream. Sort of. But America had already met him through three unforgettable Letterman appearances in the 90s, the best of which we've included below. With Korine and Letterman in mind, we've dug up ten of our favourite appearances by directors on chat shows.

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