6 nov 2012

Last MARS pics of the day

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Jared Leto Returning to Acting with 'Dallas Buyers Club'

6/11/2012

The 30 Seconds to Mars frontman joins Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner in the AIDS drama, playing a flamboyant cross-dresser

Actor and 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto is stepping before the cameras for the first time in five years for Dallas Buyer’s Club, joining Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner in the long-in-the-works AIDS drama.

Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria) is directing the project, which will begin shooting in New Orleans next week.

Inspired by real-life events, the story centers on Ron Woodruff (McConaughey), a Texas electrician diagnosed with AIDS and given six months to live, who began smuggling alternative drugs into the U.S. to help himself and other AIDS patients. He added years to his life but rushed head-first into a collision course with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was bent on keeping the drugs out of the country.

In a potentially stand-out role, Leto would play a flamboyant cross-dresser with HIV who helps Woodroof. At one point, Gael Garcia Bernal circled the role but never reached the dealmaking stage.

Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack adapted Woodruff’s story for the screen. Robbie Brenner is producing with Rachel Rothman-Winter and Nathan Ross.

Leto worked with David Fincher in Fight Club and Panic Room, as well as Darren Aronofsky in Requiem for a Dream before focusing his energies on his rock band 30 Second to Mars, which since the mid-2000s has become a major arena performer. Leto did find time to direct a 30 Seconds to Mars documentary titled Artifact (under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins) and the pic won the people’s choice documentary award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

With music taking so much attention, Leto is somewhat choosy as to what roles he takes on and Buyer’s Club will be his first acting outing since he starred in Mr. Nobody with Sarah Polley and Diane Kruger.

He is repped by CAA and Untitled.

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Jared Leto joins McConaughey, Garner in 'Club'

Indie drama directed by Jean-Marc Vallee

Nov. 6, 2012

Jared Leto is returning to the bigscreen for the first time since 2009, as the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman has closed a deal to join indie drama "Dallas Buyers Club" alongside Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner.
Story centers on an AIDS patient (McConaughey) who contracts the disease in 1986 and survives six years by illegally smuggling medicine into the U.S. Leto will play a fellow AIDS patient who meets McConaughey's character in the hospital.
Jean-Marc Vallee is directing a script by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack. Truth Entertainment and Voltage Pictures are financing the production, which begins Sunday in New Orleans. Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter are producing.
Leto, represented by CAA and Untitled, isn't abandoning the rock-star thing: he recently concluded a tour with 30 Seconds to Mars, which is working on its next album.

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MARS Live Performance of Memories ♫ ♥

ATTACK Live from "Into The Wild tour" at the House of Blues in Orlando, FL 28th April 2010

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NOTES FROM THE OUTERNET: SIT BACK, RELAX, AND ENJOY THE FLIGHT — ECHELON AIR

November 6th, 2012

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JARED at Hard Festival - Day of the Dead 3rd November 2012 in downtown Los Angeles, California

Jared at Hard Day of the Dead, downtown by Jamie Reed

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JARED at ASCAP EXPO 2012 - videos

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Jared on Rolling Stone.com ♥

30 Seconds to Mars Documentary Wins People's Choice Award in Toronto

'Artifact' chronicles the band's 'brutal' legal battle with EMI

By Karen Bliss

September 18, 2012 3:25 PM ET

Jared Leto gets a laugh when he first appears onscreen in Artifact, the new documentary about his band 30 Seconds to Mars' label troubles, holding his middle finger in the air from under his bedsheets. A bid for the cameraman to get the hell out of his room, the gesture sums up the sentiment of the film, which won the People's Choice award for a documentary on Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Directed by Leto himself (under the alias Bartholomew Cubbins), Artifact chronicles 30 Seconds to Mars' legal battle with EMI, who filed a $30 million breach of contract lawsuit against them in 2008 for failing to deliver the third of five albums. The band's most recent LP at the time, 2005's Beautiful Lie, had sold 3.5 million copies, but Leto and his bandmates – brother and drummer Shannon Leto and guitarist Tomo Milicevic – still owed money to their label. The dispute lasted over 200 days and inspired what would become their third LP, 2009's This Is War.
"It started as a film about the making of an album, and it became a film about the most brutal and challenging conflict of our lives," Leto told Rolling Stone in Toronto, adding that the film has received several offers from distributors. "I hope that artists and audiences watch this film and get a greater understanding of how things work [in the record industry], because understanding is the beginning of change. Inevitably, we're all moving towards what I hope is a more transparent system."
As 30 Seconds to Mars holed up in L.A. with producer Flood to record This is War, the lawsuit loomed heavy, resulting in a stressful creative environment. Both Leto and Flood refer to the fight as a "moral crusade" in the film.
"It actually helped us make a better album," Leto said. "We were very determined. We had to make an album that succeeded no matter what – with or without a label. So the record is directly influenced and informed by this battle. It's called This Is War for a reason. We were fighting for all of us. We were fighting for fairness. We're a small band that's had a bit of success, and we were fighting a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate. That's kind of crazy, right?"
In the end, 30 Seconds to Mars signed a "more favorable" deal with EMI and negotiated the right to release the documentary, which the band owns. This Is War has sold two million copies, but according to the fim, the band is still $1.7 million in debt to the label.
Since the making of Artifact, EMI has been sold to Universal – but Leto doesn't see that as a coup de grace. "It's about the powerbrokers," he says. "It's about the people in the companies that keep these systems in place. It's not about the people who do the work. There's a lot of great people at the label. I'm not anti-label. I'm anti-greed and pro-fairness."

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