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David Duchovny claims to have "discovered" Angelina Jolie in 1997's Playing God. Jolie's career took off after her role in Playing God, with notable films like Pushing Tin, The Bone Collector, and Girl, Interrupted. Duchovny played a part in Jolie's casting in the movie, recognizing her potential as a star.

David Duchovny has made a bold statement in a recent interview when sharing his feelings about discovering Angelina Jolie while working with the actress back in his 1997 movie Playing God. Although Jolie had made several appearances by the time she worked with Duchovny on the Andy Wilson movie, The X-Files star explained how he played a pivotal role in Jolies casting in the movie.

Playing God was written by Mark Haskell Smith, and centers on a disgraced surgeon who reinvents himself as a "gunshot doctor" in the criminal underworld. Along with Duchovny and Jolie, the film also starred Timothy Hutton,...

David Duchovny says he feels like he “discovered” Angelina Jolie, his Playing God co-star.

The X-Files alum recently revealed in a new interview that he was part of the casting for the 1997 film directed by Andy Wilson.

“I feel like I discovered Angelina Jolie,” Duchovny said on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy when asked what he thought about his former co-stars.

Host Andy Cohen asked Duchovny to explain, with the actor saying, “Yeah, cause I was casting, I was part of the casting. I didn’t discover her, but… she came in, and I just knew she was a movie star, and I told everybody [that] we’ve gotta cast her.”

The Touchstone Pictures film written by Mark Haskell Smith revolved around “a disgraced surgeon [who] leaves his former life and reinvents himself as a gunshot doctor in the criminal underworld.” According to IMDb, the film’s casting directors were Elaine J. Huzzar and Johanna Ray.

Gone are the days. Several Hollywood celebrities have walked a long road to get where they are now. But they have been sensational even at the beginning of their career. A recent video compiling the faces of celebrities created a vibe that will take fans on a nostalgic ride.

Angelina Jolie in 1996 movie Mojave Moon

Jackie Chan, Keanu Reeves, and Angelina Jolie alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jim Carrey, and several others have looked naturally unique if we go back to the old videos of the stars. Of course, their charm is still intact, but the innocence and free young spirit in their faces exhibit how time flies.

Jackie Chan, Keanu Reeves, Angelina Jolie, and Several Star Shines From The Past

Keanu Reeves in My Own Private Idaho (1991)

In a recent post, a compilation video by the popular X handle, Historic Vids, which Dwayne Johnson also follows, takes fans on a ride to nostalgia.

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSSian Heder's Coda took home the Best Picture award at the 94th Academy Awards, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car took Best International Feature, and Jane Campion won Best Director for The Power of the Dog. Find more of this year's Oscars winners here. We're saddened by the loss of Japanese filmmaker Shinji Aoyama, who recently died at the age of 57. Most revered for his 2000 film Eureka, about a trio who embark on a road trip after surviving a bus hijacking, Aoyama continued his humanist exploration of violence, family, and generation gaps in films like Desert Moon (2001) and Sad Vacation (2007), the loose sequel to Eureka. He was also a prolific novelist and critic, with his novelization of Eureka awarded the Yukio Mishima prize in 2001. Il Cinema Ritrovato has announced the programs of this year's festivities,...

Shinji Aoyama, the Japanese film director, writer and composer known for the film “Eureka,” which won him two prizes at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, died March 21 in Tokyo after a battle with esophageal cancer, according to local reports. He was 57.

Aoyama made waves in the international film community when he premiered “Eureka” at Cannes. The film was a black-and-white drama about the aftermath of a bus hijacking, based on a real incident, and it won the Fipresci and Ecumenical Jury prizes. “Eureka” boosted Aoyama to the forefront of a new generation of Japanese filmmakers, and he returned to the festival in 2001 with “Desert Moon” and in 2005 with “Eri Eri Rema Sabakutani.”

Born on July 13, 1964, in Kitakyushu, Japan, Aoyama initially wanted to be a rock musician, but became interested in cinema after watching Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film “Apocalypse Now” and later cited Jean-Luc Godard’s films “Pierrot le Fou” and...

In the tradition of The Entity and The Conjuring comes the sexy horror ride Paranormal Attraction! Tiberiusfilm Ltd. (Tfl), the company behind the multi-award winning horror film Lilith and action thriller Prey, in Cold Blood is announcing the completion of their new horror film Paranormal Attraction, starring Brooklyn Haley, Nicole Cinaglia , Eden …

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An official trailer for Paranormal Attraction has arrived online. This is the latest from filmmaker Alex T. Hwang, who previously helmed Lilith and Prey, in Cold Blood. In this case, Hwang is taking on the well-trodden supernatural subgenre of horror. Though it doesn't seem to be a riff on the Paranormal Activity franchise or anything along those lines. Instead, we are getting a thriller with a supernatural twist, complete with a side of romance. There is, at the very least, a lot going on here.

The trailer kicks off with a woman moving into a new home. It is a little hard to get a grip on what exactly is going on, as it is more of a collection of shots strung together, as opposed to something trying to present the basic idea of the narrative. But the footage does tease "unrequited love" as being central to the story. We...

Tiberiusfilm Ltd. (Tfl), the company behind the multi-award winning horror film Lilith and action thriller Prey, in Cold Blood is announcing the completion of their new horror film Paranormal Attraction, starring Brooklyn Haley, Nicole Cinaglia , Eden Shea Beck and Hunter Johnson.

The film was written by Richard J. Aguirre and directed by Alex T. Hwang, and produced by Kathleen W. Hwang, Pat Kusnadi, and Thomas Haley.

Paranormal Attraction tells the dark and sinister tale of a young woman, Sara Myer (Brooklyn Haley), who moves into an abandoned house with a tragic and mysterious past. As Sarah begins to purge the house of the previous owner’s belongings, she begins to uncover its deadly secrets. Rookie police officer Evelyn Bennett (Nicole Cinaglia) helps her investigate the mysterious happenings and captures Sara’s heart. Will they learn the secrets of the house or will the house claim Sara’s soul?

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