JESSE EISENBERG

Eisenberg made his Broadway debut as an understudy in a 1996 revival of Summer and Smoke. He made his screen debut on the 1999 television series Get Real, which was canceled in 2000. After appearing in the made-for-television film Lightning: Fire from the Sky, he starred in the independent film, Roger Dodger (for which he won an award at the San Diego film festival), and in the inspirational film The Emperor's Club, both of which were released in 2002 to generally positive reviews.

In 2005, Eisenberg appeared in Cursed, a horror film directed by Wes Craven, and The Squid and the Whale, a well-reviewed independent drama also starring Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels. His stage credits include Scarcity at the Atlantic Theater Company (2007) and a workshop production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans in Los Angeles (2006). In 2007, he starred opposite Richard Gere and Terrence Howard in The Hunting Party, a comic thriller in which he plays a young journalist in Bosnia.

In 2009, Eisenberg played the lead role in Adventureland, a comedy directed by Greg Mottola and filmed in Kennywood Park near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Filming ended in October 2007 and the movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Fellow cast members included Kristen Stewart and Bill Hader. In November 2007, Eisenberg was cast in an indie comic-drama, Holy Rollers. He plays a young Hasidic Jew who gets lured into becoming an ecstasy dealer. Filming was scheduled to begin in New York in 2008.

He plans to write for stage and screen. (Via Wikipedia)


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Justin Bartha & Jesse Eisenberg: Let’s Do Lunch

via buzznet.com ( 95 Days ago )
Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha do lunch together at Urth Caffe in West Hollywood on Thursday (November 5). The two actors, who share the screen in the upcoming indie Holy Rollers, caught up over a meal in town. Jesse, 26, will star in The Social Network as Facebook maven Mark Zuckerberg - filming has already begun in Baltimore. 31-year-old Justin is currently attached [...]

More Casting for The Social Network

via screencrave.com ( 112 Days ago )
More casting news to report from the upcoming Facebook film entitled, The Social Network. The David Fincher production already features Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg, and Andrew Garfield as the main characters in the adaptation based on the book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. It appears that six more actors [...]

Music Appreciation: Jesse Eisenberg

via spinner.com ( 124 Days ago )
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Film: Newswire:Weekend Box Office: Brains! Braaaaains!

via avclub.com ( 127 Days ago )
Horror-comedies don’t always have the best track record at the box office—audiences generally like to keep these particular genres segregated—but Zombieland proved a whopping exception this weekend, opening in first place with a $25 million haul. One could attribute the film’s success to its irreverent take on the zombie apocalypse; we’re going to call it “the Jesse Eisenberg [...]

REVIEW: ZOMBIELAND IS SORT OF FUNNY

via uproxx.com ( 130 Days ago )
Jew Zombie Killers Can’t Hump: A Zombieland Review Zombieland is a road movie about two of the last survivors of the zombie plague, who don’t really have anywhere to go.  They’re instead driven by their desires: Woody Harrelson’s “Tallahassee” a desire to find the last Twinkies on Earth, and Jesse Eisenberg’s “Columbus” to finally [...]

NEW! RELEASES!

via iwatchstuff.com ( 130 Days ago )
These movies come out in theaters this weekend. Will YOU see one of them? The Invention of Lying Director: Ricky Gervais, Matt Robinson Starring: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Louis CK, Jonah Hill, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey, Jeffrey Tambor, John Hodgman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Guest--all those laff-'em-up types Good if you want to see: a humorous account of the first person to [...]

Zombieland

via rollingstone.com ( 131 Days ago )
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin Review: Guilty-pleasure movies should not be underestimated. I had a scary-fun-house blast at Zombieland, in which studly Woody Harrelson, nerdy Jesse Eisenberg, sexy Emma Stone and sunshiny Abigail Breslin roam a near-dead world kicking zombie ass. ( Watch Peter Travers' video review of Zombieland) Director [...]

Movies: Cinematic Smorgasbord of Gervais, Zombies, Docs

via wired.com ( 131 Days ago )
An unusually offbeat movie slate opening Friday promises to provoke laughs mingled with wry insights, bitter loathing, blood-curdling screams and “you-go-girl” cheers. First the funny stuff: Horror comedy Zombieland casts Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland) as humans surrounded by vacant-eyed flesh-eaters. Current reviews: 9 Fuses Bleak Sci-Fi Story [...]

Film: Interview:Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg

via avclub.com ( 131 Days ago )
Though a little late to the zombie-flick resurgence, Zombieland is nevertheless a welcome addition to the subgenre. The new film, from relatively green director Ruben Fleischer, finds a young college kid and a grizzled, gun-loving renegade—Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson, respectively—teaming up to survive in a world ravaged by zombies, where they may be the only human survivors. [...]

‘Zombieland’ star Jesse Eisenberg: Anatomy of a rising star

via ew.com ( 131 Days ago )
Could Jesse Eisenberg, the gawky kid from Adventureland and The Squid and the Whale, be on the verge of breakout star status? I’d say yes, after watching him on last night’s Conan (check out the clip after the jump). The 25-year-old did a great job of plugging his new movie Zombieland, earning big laughs from

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