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When a film ‘flops’, always blame the actress
When a film ‘flops’, always blame the actress. If a film doesn’t flop, call it a flop and blame the actress. If a film is a hit, blame the actor. The Huffington Post linked to the AP box office analysis piece yesterday with their own headline, titled simply ‘Gwyneth flops’. It wasn’t a surprise, as...
Jeff Bridges teases PBS’ “The Dude Abides” with interview, clip
We are days away from PBS’ airing of the American Masters episode “Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides,” a must-see for any fan of the Oscar-winning actor and, more specifically, his involvement in Joel and Ethan Coen’s “The Big Lebowski.” The episode premieres on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. ET on PBS. It explores Bridges’ career, his turn as...
Marion Cotillard of “Inception” pregnant with first child
So that’s why Leonardo DiCaprio so relentlessly pursued Marion Cotillard through several levels of dream land … she’s pregnant. OK, so it’s the actress who is with child, and not Cotillard’s vindictive “Inception” character. THR is reportingthat Cotillard and her husband, French filmmaker Guillaume Canet (“Love Me If You Dare”). It will be the couple’s first child....
Sean Penn to receive 2011 Stanley Kramer Award
The Producers Guild of America (PGA), announced today that Sean Penn will be honored with the 2011 Stanley Kramer Award. The award will be presented to Penn at the 22nd Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 22nd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The Stanley Kramer Award was established in 2002...
Kristen Stewart already thinking about her next project
Although Kristen Stewart is still finishing up ‘Twilight,’ she is already thinking abouther next projects that will follow. Stewart is getting pretty excited about hopefully moving forward with a film called ‘American Girl,’ states OK! Magazine. “I am attached and I totally love it,” Stewart said about the film she hopes gets made in the near future. The film...
2010 Look Back at the Year in Film
Let us begin our look back at the year in film with a token acknowledgement of ten films whose reputations did not proceed them. For the record, not all of the films below are bad pictures. But they all generated critical and/or audience esteem that they perhaps did not entirely earn. There is nothing wrong...
Oscars® vs. Screen Actors Guild Awards
Just how many of the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees will go on to contend at the Oscars? The 2100 SAG members who sit on the nominating committee have proven to be remarkably prescient at predicting which performances will find favor with the 1205 voters in the acting branch of the academy. Last year, a...
Angelina Jolie is fashion role model for Nickelodeon star
Angelina Jolie is a fashion role model for many women and now younger women are looking up to the star when it comes to style. Elizabeth Gillies, of the Nickelodeon show ‘Victorious,’ loves Jolie’s “fierce” look, reports TooFab. “I like old-style Angelina Jolie,” Gillies says about Jolie’s more casual look of “a simple white tank top...
“Chronicles of Narnia” cast dishes on special effects, lion’s heads, and possible sequels
Sitting on a bus as we returned to our hotel following the world premiere of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” a handful of journalists enjoyed an enlightening and refreshingly pure conversation with an elite group of people we don’t always have access to: die-hard, unapologetic, non-cynical film fans. A mother...
“Blue Valentine” wins MPAA Appeal
Following a hearing this afternoon, The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced that it has won a unanimous appeal of the NC-17 rating initially given to its feature film Blue Valentine by the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA’s Classification and Rating Administration had bestowed the NC-17 due to one scene, a sexually intimate sequence between...
‘Jackass 3.5′ coming to your computer in March 2011
Paramount Digital Entertainment in association with MTV, both part of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) announced today that it plans to add another original project to its popular digital programming line-up: “Jackass 3.5,” which will premiere in March 2011. The third installment of JACKASS from Paramount Pictures and MTV Films -Jackass 3D – hit...
Tangled and Harry Potter 7 face off over crowded Thanksgiving
Like a combination of Thanksgiving holidays past, it was a combination of Harry Potter holding down the fort against all newcomers, while a Disney animated property broke out of the gate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part I still won the three-day and five-day weekend derby, but Disney’s Tangled had a smashing debut that...
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart marriage blunder in Ok Magazine
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were recently married in a lavish ceremony in Brazil. The elusive couple have finally decided to tie the knot while in the beautiful locale. At least that’s what the headline ensued in a recent issue of Ok Magazine. Readers and gossip enthusiasts alike were shocked when the monumental headline hit...
‘Underworld 4′ gets some Swedish flavor
Swedish directing combo Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein are in talks to helm “Underworld 4” with Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as vampire warrior Selene. Screen Gems will release the film and Lakeshore Entertainment will produce. “Underworld 4” is set to shoot in Vancouver in March. John Hlavin wrote the script with revisions by J....
Bill Clinton tries his hand at comedy in ‘Hangover 2′
“Hangover 2” keeps adding cameos to the extent that it’s sounding like the new “Muppet Movie.” Turns out former President Bill Clinton was literally doing his time before the camera on the Thailand set. TMZ spies saw Clinton on the set and snapped some photos. Security was beefed up due to his presence. TMZ writes:...
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