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Zac Efron learned guitar skills from Taylor Swift
Zac Efron and Taylor Swift both lent their voices to characters in ‘The Lorax,’ but she also lent Efron some musical tips. Efron and Swift have been busy promoting their film together, and it seems that time has given him the chance to convince her to teach him some guitar skills, states UsMagazine.com. “We were...
The Avengers trailer arrives online
The full trailer for Joss Whedon’s “The Avengers,” which kicks off Summer 2012, has been released online. It’s available on Apple’s trailer page, and can be accessed in multiple formats right HERE. Finally, we’re getting our first official look at Marvel’s mightiest heroes in action. If you haven’t been following the steps that are leading...
Leonardo DiCaprio moving on with a new model
Leonardo DiCaprio may have only recently announced his split from Blake Lively, but it looks like he may already be moving on to the next hot thing. DiCaprio is now being linked to Australian model Alyce Crawford, states Celebuzz. The two have reportedly been hanging out as he is filming ‘Great Gatsby’ in Sydney. And...
Jersey Shore Snooki explains her fragrance
‘Jersey Shore’ star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is coming out with her first fragrance but first she is revealing what fans can expect of this. While it won’t smell like her favorite food, pickles, it will smell like something else that could be questionable, states UsMagazine.com. Snooki revealed to Jay Leno that it will be, “flirty...
“Hunger Games” adds Hutcherson, Hemsworth
Josh Hutcherson let it slip while talking to press at the South By Southwest Film Festival. He was in Austin promoting a horror-comedy hybrid called “Detention,” but he joked that he’d love to join “The Hunger Games,” the planned adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling books. Today, no one is laughing. Hutcherson, of “The Kids Are...
Tom Hooper may move from “Speech” to “Miserables”
Picking your next project after an Oscar win has to be difficult. For “King’s Speech” director Tom Hooper, it might be downright “Miserables.” The Oscar-winning filmmaker reportedly is in negotiations to helm a big-screen adaptation of the long-running musical “Les Miserables,” Deadline reports. Hooper would helm the film for Universal Pictures. Cameron Mackintosh would produced...
Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood (with Amanda Seyfried) gets a visually dynamic poster
I rather liked the first moody, low-key poster for this ‘Twilight’ by way of ‘Sleepy Hallow’ variation on ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ So while this new poster is also visually appealing, and it gives a full cast roll call (always a plus in my book), I must acknowledge that it is a poster for the...
George Clooney on board with “The Monster of Florence”
After a relatively quiet year in which he released only one film (“The American”), George Clooney is diving back into the game with both feet. The A-list actor-director has been lining up projects over the last few months, with another one dropping this morning. It appears Clooney is attached to star in “The Monster of...
“Never Let Me Go” clips reveals previously secret plot point
Opening in four theaters last weekend, Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go” performed wonderfully, pulling in an average of $27,000 per theater and giving Fox Searchlight a strong platform on which to expand. Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, the films stars Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan as childhood friends who grow up in an idyllic...
John Cusack flies with The Raven
Having time warped earlier in the year in “Hot Tub Time Machine,” John Cusack is transporting himself to another era, circa the late 1800s. Cusack will play the famed horror-thriller author Edgar Allen Poe in the Intrepid Pictures and FilmNation production of “The Raven.” As has been the vogue with many celebrities of late, Cusack...
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