by Mawuse Ziegbe
The Box-Office Top Five
#1 "The American" ($12.9 million)
#2 "Takers" ($11.4 million)
#3 "Machete" ($11.3 million)
#4 "The Last Exorcism" ($7.5 million)
#5 "Going the Distance" ($6.9 million)
"The American" staged a last-minute takeover of the weekend box office after sliding into second place on Friday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, George Clooney's turn as a hitman dodging danger in Italy to carry out one last mission, raked in an estimated $12.9 million, besting "Machete" at the close of its first weekend in theaters.
After landing in third place on the Friday kickoff of Labor Day weekend, last week's #1 movie, "Takers" also toppled Robert Rodriguez's graphic Mexploitation pic. Featuring hip-hop and Hollywood names like Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and T.I., the action flick about a smash-and-grab job by suave crew of thieves, snatched up $11.4 million in ticket sales for second place.
After barely edging past "The American" on Friday, "Machete" will wrap up its debut weekend right behind "Takers" with a third-place finish. Featuring Jessica Alba and Danny Trejo, and boasting a much-hyped appearance from Lindsay Lohan, the film pulled in $11.3 million.
"The Last Exorcism" held steady in the top five with $7.5 million. The fourth-place picture, which follows a film crew charged with documenting the creepy developments at a rural exorcism, has made a total of $32.3 million since hitting theaters last week.
Drew Barrymore and Justin Long's date-night pic, "Going the Distance," lagged behind stronger debuts like "The American" and "Machete." The rom-com, featuring the two real-life, off-and-on lovers playing a couple working to keep a long-distance romance afloat, rang up $6.9 million in ticket sales to land in fifth place during its opening weekend.
'The American' Wins Labor Day Box Office
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The American seems to be a good movie. It's a George Clooney-starrer that is a must-see movie.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Montana Fishburne sex tape venture to make her famous has worked - with offers galore
Montana Fishburne ventured releasing a sex tape of herself as a porn movie so that she could become famous like Kim Kardashian. She wanted to break into Hollywood and be a star and tried to do this with he porn movie "Chippy D". Sad to say, it worked and this technique of doing a sex tape may start to become the new backdoor into Hollywood for young women.
According to USA Today, the sex tape that Montana Fishburne released through the porn movie company of Vivid Entertainment, is reportedly a big money maker. They went as far as to say Montana Fishburne may have the biggest selling porn title of the year.
Montana has also been given offers, good offers, not just for porn roles, the website reports. They are mostly acting parts for Montana.
As far as Laurence Fishburne goes, he has not gotten over his 18 year old daughter releasing a sex tape to be turned into a porn movie yet. Montana Fishburne says she will not have a relationship with her father until he respects her and what she does and this does not look as if it will happen any time soon, the young new porn star reports.
"I would be devastated if a daughter of mine took this route to Hollywood", said a Connecticut father of two teenage girls. "It is not only heartbreaking, but it has to be mortifying and embarrassing for Laurence Fishburne hear this about his daughter", he went on to say.
Montana Fishburne sex tape venture to make her famous has worked - with offers galore
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I wonder what Hollywood actor Laurence Fishburne feels about this. Montana, if she's really a good actress, need not to go on this route. Poor girl.
According to USA Today, the sex tape that Montana Fishburne released through the porn movie company of Vivid Entertainment, is reportedly a big money maker. They went as far as to say Montana Fishburne may have the biggest selling porn title of the year.
Montana has also been given offers, good offers, not just for porn roles, the website reports. They are mostly acting parts for Montana.
As far as Laurence Fishburne goes, he has not gotten over his 18 year old daughter releasing a sex tape to be turned into a porn movie yet. Montana Fishburne says she will not have a relationship with her father until he respects her and what she does and this does not look as if it will happen any time soon, the young new porn star reports.
"I would be devastated if a daughter of mine took this route to Hollywood", said a Connecticut father of two teenage girls. "It is not only heartbreaking, but it has to be mortifying and embarrassing for Laurence Fishburne hear this about his daughter", he went on to say.
Montana Fishburne sex tape venture to make her famous has worked - with offers galore
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I wonder what Hollywood actor Laurence Fishburne feels about this. Montana, if she's really a good actress, need not to go on this route. Poor girl.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
John Woo awarded Golden Lion at Venice
by Rohini Chandrasekhar
Veteran Hollywood director John Woo was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival when he was handed the Golden Lion on September 3rd. Chinese by birth, Woo has been in filmdom for over 30 years now, starting off with a career in Hong Kong before moving to make it begin Hollywood. He has directed over 26 movies in his career including biggies like Mission Impossible 2, which earned gross revenues of $1 billion worldwide.
Woo has been famous for his stylized action thrillers that have a mass appeal for the graphics and action involved. He debuted in Hollywood with Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer ‘Hard Target’ in 1993, but his first major runaway success was the 1995 film, ‘Broken Arrow” with John Travolta and Christian Slater in the lead. Woo has directed other Hollywood blockbusters Face/Off, Hard Boiled, Hostage and Paycheck among others.
Woo has recently shifted back to making movies in China, claiming that he feels that it was time he used his knowledge earned from Hollywood for the betterment of Chinese cinema worldwide. He is currently busy with ‘Red Cliff” based on a war that had taken place in 3rd century China.
Woo was in Venice to showcase his epic martial arts thriller starring Michelle Yeoh in the out-of-competition category, when he was pleasantly surprised with the wonderful news of his winning the Golden Lion. Humble as ever, Woo played down the award and pointed out that he hardly contributed much to the film society.
Venice Film Festival director Marco Mueller, however, felt that Woo was rightly honored with the achievement award, since his movies were “a perfect union of the China tradition and avant-garde filmmaking.” Woo was handed over the award at the Palazzo del Cinema in front of packed audiences by American director Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury for this year Venice Film Festival.
John Woo awarded Golden Lion at Venice
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Another Asian director honored at an international film festival! John Woo is one of the best directors China has ever produced, along side Ang Lee.
Veteran Hollywood director John Woo was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival when he was handed the Golden Lion on September 3rd. Chinese by birth, Woo has been in filmdom for over 30 years now, starting off with a career in Hong Kong before moving to make it begin Hollywood. He has directed over 26 movies in his career including biggies like Mission Impossible 2, which earned gross revenues of $1 billion worldwide.
Woo has been famous for his stylized action thrillers that have a mass appeal for the graphics and action involved. He debuted in Hollywood with Jean-Claude Van Damme starrer ‘Hard Target’ in 1993, but his first major runaway success was the 1995 film, ‘Broken Arrow” with John Travolta and Christian Slater in the lead. Woo has directed other Hollywood blockbusters Face/Off, Hard Boiled, Hostage and Paycheck among others.
Woo has recently shifted back to making movies in China, claiming that he feels that it was time he used his knowledge earned from Hollywood for the betterment of Chinese cinema worldwide. He is currently busy with ‘Red Cliff” based on a war that had taken place in 3rd century China.
Woo was in Venice to showcase his epic martial arts thriller starring Michelle Yeoh in the out-of-competition category, when he was pleasantly surprised with the wonderful news of his winning the Golden Lion. Humble as ever, Woo played down the award and pointed out that he hardly contributed much to the film society.
Venice Film Festival director Marco Mueller, however, felt that Woo was rightly honored with the achievement award, since his movies were “a perfect union of the China tradition and avant-garde filmmaking.” Woo was handed over the award at the Palazzo del Cinema in front of packed audiences by American director Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury for this year Venice Film Festival.
John Woo awarded Golden Lion at Venice
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Another Asian director honored at an international film festival! John Woo is one of the best directors China has ever produced, along side Ang Lee.
Summer 2010: Hollywood's winners and losers
by Brian Marder
Summer movie season isn't all about money, but -- oh, who're we kidding? While we hate to reduce our favorite time of year to (billions of) dollars, that's what it boils down to -- and it's really the only way to determine which trends, actors, genres and more did or didn't fare well over the summer. Below are our winners and losers for summer 2010…
WINNER: The Smith Family
It's still tough to fathom how a middling kiddie flick/unnecessary remake earned a boatload of cash, but Jaden Smith appears poised to follow in the footsteps of his dad, Will -- who produced the unlikeliest blockbuster of 'em all, The Karate Kid (and bought $100 million worth of tickets?? Kidding, Will). The movie earned more than The A-Team and Prince of Persia… COMBINED. 'Nuff said.
LOSER: 3D
Snubbed by Iron Man 2 and embraced by the Step Up franchise? Ouch! Of course, summer wasn't totally devoid of the get-rich-quickly-and-easily "technology," and it certainly boosted the ticket sales of some movies (Toy Story 3, Shrek Forever After), but some of the biggest blockbusters of the season said "No, thanks" to 3D while it failed to help other movies (The Last Airbender, Piranha 3D, Cats & Dogs, Step Up 3D). There is clearly a backlash going on, from filmmakers and -goers; hopefully Hollywood learned its lesson this summer, which is this: Only a small percentage of movies deserve the extra dimension. And the last-minute, last-ditch 2D-to-3D conversions? We can tell, and we're not interested.
WINNER: Animation
How to Train Your Dragon, which hit theaters in late March and didn't even begin to slow down until almost June, set the tone for animated movies that would be released after it -- and retold the box office gospel: Animated movies can pretty much do no wrong. Toy Story 3 is easily the highest-grossing movie of the YEAR, and it's already surpassed $1 billion worldwide; Shrek Forever After, although not a hit with critics, did very well domestically and extraordinarily well internationally; and Despicable Me, made on a shoestring budget by today's standards, was massive. There wasn't -- and almost never is -- any disappointment from the animation set.
LOSER: The Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players
Zac Efron, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Cera give new meaning to the term usually reserved for SNL cast members. This was supposed to be the summer that all three proved they could "open" a movie; instead it proved that they're not quite ready. Efron is still the prettiest thesp around, male or female, and his career likely won't be derailed by the laughable melodramatic disaster that was Charlie St. Cloud; Gyllenhaal, too, will ultimately be fine despite his performance in Prince of Persia and the movie's performance at the box office. Cera, however, might not be entrusted with the lead role of a big-budget production for the foreseeable future, following the commercial -- even if not critical -- letdown of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (refreshingly, though, Cera probably cares very little about his commercial appeal). Bottom line: None of the three had the summer they'd hoped for, and their star power took a hit.
WINNER: Steve Carell
His decision to leave The Office after next season is a tough pill to swallow, but it's easy to understand: Steve Carell is a big-screen star now, and it really must be a challenge to find time for TV -- let alone his family! Date Night performed very well in the run-up to the summer; the blockbuster Despicable Me again proved that Carell is great (and bankable) even when merely heard; and Dinner for Schmucks, while not a Meet the Parents-size hit, has turned a profit and is still in theaters. It's no wonder that Carell's upcoming projects reach the double digits.
LOSER: Jonah Hex
Only one movie deserves its own spot on this list, and that's Jonah Hex. It's already been beaten to death, and there were, in fact, bigger box office bombs this summer, percentagewise, but… wow. While Josh Brolin will walk away unscathed, with little more than a "What was he thinking?" slap on the wrist, Hex put the nail in the coffin of Megan Fox's career (temporarily, of course), and the director, Jimmy Hayward, should be facing eight-to-10 years in director jail. It's rare for a movie to be so atrocious that it doesn't even stand a chance at DVD redemption, or guilty-pleasure redemption, but, well, at least Hex is exceptional in that sense.
WINNER: Unoriginality
Sequels, adaptations, remakes, reimaginations -- they rule the summertime, every time, and 2010 was no different. Three wholly original releases (Inception, Despicable Me and Grown Ups) made a splash, while two such movies (Salt and The Other Guys) made waves. All other hits, even the relatively minor ones, fit neatly into one of the aforementioned categories of unoriginality: Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Shrek Forever After, The Karate Kid, The Last Airbender… the list goes on. Here's hoping the success of Inception ushers in some balance for future summers.
LOSER: Onetime Superstars
Dear Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Aniston, Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez (she gets an asterisk since The Back-Up Plan came out in late April), Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher and Russell Crowe, et al.: Your name on a movie's poster is no longer enough to bring out large audiences. Our deepest, sincerest condolences. P.S. Don't give up hope. Maybe you can all get together for an Expendables type of movie in a decade or so.
WINNER: Quality
There isn't typically much emphasis placed on quality during the summer months; it's more "Let's aim to quintuple our money and if the movie happens to be good… bonus!" But this summer featured a pair of B.O. behemoths that also happened to be, well, good. Inception scored at the box office, earned positive reviews from critics, and was arguably the most buzzed-about movie of the summer by fans. Toy Story 3, meanwhile, vastly outgrossed Inception and is one of the best-reviewed movies of the entire year; there's already talk of a Best Picture nom. Then there were the indies: Winter's Bone, The Kids Are All Right, Animal Kingdom, Get Low, Cyrus and Life During Wartime were all highly praised and could reenter the fray come awards season -- as could documentaries The Tillman Story, Restrepo, A Film Unifnished and Joan Rivers: A Real Piece of Work.
LOSER: Canines and Felines
Note to Hollywood: The cutesy-animal subgenre is no longer a lucrative one. It was a flash in the pan; you're too late to try and ride the wave of Marley & Me (which could be said about Jennifer Aniston, too). Marmaduke was beyond lame, and a box office dud. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, though? It cost over $85 million to make. I repeat: $85 million. Who on Earth greenlit that movie and budget? A studio head's 9-year-old kid??
Summer 2010: Hollywood's winners and losers
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In Hollywood, whatever you do, people still find it as a loss. Oh well, I have seen some of the Hollywood movies mentioned, and they are very good. I hope to still see some of them before I consider them as either a Hollywood winner or loser.
Summer movie season isn't all about money, but -- oh, who're we kidding? While we hate to reduce our favorite time of year to (billions of) dollars, that's what it boils down to -- and it's really the only way to determine which trends, actors, genres and more did or didn't fare well over the summer. Below are our winners and losers for summer 2010…
WINNER: The Smith Family
It's still tough to fathom how a middling kiddie flick/unnecessary remake earned a boatload of cash, but Jaden Smith appears poised to follow in the footsteps of his dad, Will -- who produced the unlikeliest blockbuster of 'em all, The Karate Kid (and bought $100 million worth of tickets?? Kidding, Will). The movie earned more than The A-Team and Prince of Persia… COMBINED. 'Nuff said.
LOSER: 3D
Snubbed by Iron Man 2 and embraced by the Step Up franchise? Ouch! Of course, summer wasn't totally devoid of the get-rich-quickly-and-easily "technology," and it certainly boosted the ticket sales of some movies (Toy Story 3, Shrek Forever After), but some of the biggest blockbusters of the season said "No, thanks" to 3D while it failed to help other movies (The Last Airbender, Piranha 3D, Cats & Dogs, Step Up 3D). There is clearly a backlash going on, from filmmakers and -goers; hopefully Hollywood learned its lesson this summer, which is this: Only a small percentage of movies deserve the extra dimension. And the last-minute, last-ditch 2D-to-3D conversions? We can tell, and we're not interested.
WINNER: Animation
How to Train Your Dragon, which hit theaters in late March and didn't even begin to slow down until almost June, set the tone for animated movies that would be released after it -- and retold the box office gospel: Animated movies can pretty much do no wrong. Toy Story 3 is easily the highest-grossing movie of the YEAR, and it's already surpassed $1 billion worldwide; Shrek Forever After, although not a hit with critics, did very well domestically and extraordinarily well internationally; and Despicable Me, made on a shoestring budget by today's standards, was massive. There wasn't -- and almost never is -- any disappointment from the animation set.
LOSER: The Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players
Zac Efron, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Cera give new meaning to the term usually reserved for SNL cast members. This was supposed to be the summer that all three proved they could "open" a movie; instead it proved that they're not quite ready. Efron is still the prettiest thesp around, male or female, and his career likely won't be derailed by the laughable melodramatic disaster that was Charlie St. Cloud; Gyllenhaal, too, will ultimately be fine despite his performance in Prince of Persia and the movie's performance at the box office. Cera, however, might not be entrusted with the lead role of a big-budget production for the foreseeable future, following the commercial -- even if not critical -- letdown of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (refreshingly, though, Cera probably cares very little about his commercial appeal). Bottom line: None of the three had the summer they'd hoped for, and their star power took a hit.
WINNER: Steve Carell
His decision to leave The Office after next season is a tough pill to swallow, but it's easy to understand: Steve Carell is a big-screen star now, and it really must be a challenge to find time for TV -- let alone his family! Date Night performed very well in the run-up to the summer; the blockbuster Despicable Me again proved that Carell is great (and bankable) even when merely heard; and Dinner for Schmucks, while not a Meet the Parents-size hit, has turned a profit and is still in theaters. It's no wonder that Carell's upcoming projects reach the double digits.
LOSER: Jonah Hex
Only one movie deserves its own spot on this list, and that's Jonah Hex. It's already been beaten to death, and there were, in fact, bigger box office bombs this summer, percentagewise, but… wow. While Josh Brolin will walk away unscathed, with little more than a "What was he thinking?" slap on the wrist, Hex put the nail in the coffin of Megan Fox's career (temporarily, of course), and the director, Jimmy Hayward, should be facing eight-to-10 years in director jail. It's rare for a movie to be so atrocious that it doesn't even stand a chance at DVD redemption, or guilty-pleasure redemption, but, well, at least Hex is exceptional in that sense.
WINNER: Unoriginality
Sequels, adaptations, remakes, reimaginations -- they rule the summertime, every time, and 2010 was no different. Three wholly original releases (Inception, Despicable Me and Grown Ups) made a splash, while two such movies (Salt and The Other Guys) made waves. All other hits, even the relatively minor ones, fit neatly into one of the aforementioned categories of unoriginality: Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Shrek Forever After, The Karate Kid, The Last Airbender… the list goes on. Here's hoping the success of Inception ushers in some balance for future summers.
LOSER: Onetime Superstars
Dear Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Aniston, Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez (she gets an asterisk since The Back-Up Plan came out in late April), Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher and Russell Crowe, et al.: Your name on a movie's poster is no longer enough to bring out large audiences. Our deepest, sincerest condolences. P.S. Don't give up hope. Maybe you can all get together for an Expendables type of movie in a decade or so.
WINNER: Quality
There isn't typically much emphasis placed on quality during the summer months; it's more "Let's aim to quintuple our money and if the movie happens to be good… bonus!" But this summer featured a pair of B.O. behemoths that also happened to be, well, good. Inception scored at the box office, earned positive reviews from critics, and was arguably the most buzzed-about movie of the summer by fans. Toy Story 3, meanwhile, vastly outgrossed Inception and is one of the best-reviewed movies of the entire year; there's already talk of a Best Picture nom. Then there were the indies: Winter's Bone, The Kids Are All Right, Animal Kingdom, Get Low, Cyrus and Life During Wartime were all highly praised and could reenter the fray come awards season -- as could documentaries The Tillman Story, Restrepo, A Film Unifnished and Joan Rivers: A Real Piece of Work.
LOSER: Canines and Felines
Note to Hollywood: The cutesy-animal subgenre is no longer a lucrative one. It was a flash in the pan; you're too late to try and ride the wave of Marley & Me (which could be said about Jennifer Aniston, too). Marmaduke was beyond lame, and a box office dud. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, though? It cost over $85 million to make. I repeat: $85 million. Who on Earth greenlit that movie and budget? A studio head's 9-year-old kid??
Summer 2010: Hollywood's winners and losers
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In Hollywood, whatever you do, people still find it as a loss. Oh well, I have seen some of the Hollywood movies mentioned, and they are very good. I hope to still see some of them before I consider them as either a Hollywood winner or loser.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Penn Badgley opens up
by Ruben Nepales
Back in LA, we talked to “Gossip Girl” star, Penn Badgley, who opened up about his life with costar and girlfriend, Blake Lively. “When we’re apart, it’s certainly easier to just get by,” the actor said about the advantage of not being together in public. “When we’re together, they might recognize either of us. So, we’re always making jokes—and this is going to sound awful—about who’s the more famous one. Like, we never get it when we’re solo, so it must be the other one.”
“You have to, because it’s ridiculous,” Penn remarked on the importance of having a sense of humor about all the attention. “When you see these girls coming up, they can get a little crazy.”
Penn appears in the comedy film, “Easy A,” about a high school student (Emma Stone) who uses the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing, and the thriller, “Margin Call,” which dramatizes a 24-hour period in the early stages of the financial crisis in the US.
“It’s important to do things apart, creatively and professionally,” he stressed. “Even more so because we’re not a unit—we’re separate people. However, you might be united in a romantic relationship, it’s totally different when it comes to professional matters.
“Blake and I are supportive of each other. There’s absolutely no competition or jealousy. Her career has taken off in a special way,” he said of Blake’s rise. She’s in the Ben Affleck-directed “The Town” and “Green Lantern.”
“We don’t work together a whole lot on the show,” he explained. “We have a lot of time apart, but we also have time together. That’s probably what gives us a good balance.”
Penn was asked about the irony in the fact that the “Gossip Girl” characters are rewarded for their sexual exploits, while in “Easy A,” a girl who spreads a white lie about losing her virginity finds that it’s not that easy to put out a raging rumor.
He answered, “Look at a character like Chuck Bass (played by Ed Westwick), who’s a complete whore and yet, he’s revered in ‘Gossip Girl.’ Whereas Emma’s character hasn’t even slept with anybody and yet, she’s ostracized.
“High school is much more vicious than college,” he remarked. “‘Easy A’ is set in high school, while ‘Gossip Girl’ has actually moved to the college world. In the latter, there are six of us, and we keep sleeping with the same people. In that world, nobody can really judge the other!”
Penn Badgley opens up
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Gossip Girl fans will surely wait for Penn Badgley's movie, even if Blake Lively is not his female lead.
Back in LA, we talked to “Gossip Girl” star, Penn Badgley, who opened up about his life with costar and girlfriend, Blake Lively. “When we’re apart, it’s certainly easier to just get by,” the actor said about the advantage of not being together in public. “When we’re together, they might recognize either of us. So, we’re always making jokes—and this is going to sound awful—about who’s the more famous one. Like, we never get it when we’re solo, so it must be the other one.”
“You have to, because it’s ridiculous,” Penn remarked on the importance of having a sense of humor about all the attention. “When you see these girls coming up, they can get a little crazy.”
Penn appears in the comedy film, “Easy A,” about a high school student (Emma Stone) who uses the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing, and the thriller, “Margin Call,” which dramatizes a 24-hour period in the early stages of the financial crisis in the US.
“It’s important to do things apart, creatively and professionally,” he stressed. “Even more so because we’re not a unit—we’re separate people. However, you might be united in a romantic relationship, it’s totally different when it comes to professional matters.
“Blake and I are supportive of each other. There’s absolutely no competition or jealousy. Her career has taken off in a special way,” he said of Blake’s rise. She’s in the Ben Affleck-directed “The Town” and “Green Lantern.”
“We don’t work together a whole lot on the show,” he explained. “We have a lot of time apart, but we also have time together. That’s probably what gives us a good balance.”
Penn was asked about the irony in the fact that the “Gossip Girl” characters are rewarded for their sexual exploits, while in “Easy A,” a girl who spreads a white lie about losing her virginity finds that it’s not that easy to put out a raging rumor.
He answered, “Look at a character like Chuck Bass (played by Ed Westwick), who’s a complete whore and yet, he’s revered in ‘Gossip Girl.’ Whereas Emma’s character hasn’t even slept with anybody and yet, she’s ostracized.
“High school is much more vicious than college,” he remarked. “‘Easy A’ is set in high school, while ‘Gossip Girl’ has actually moved to the college world. In the latter, there are six of us, and we keep sleeping with the same people. In that world, nobody can really judge the other!”
Penn Badgley opens up
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Gossip Girl fans will surely wait for Penn Badgley's movie, even if Blake Lively is not his female lead.
‘Camp Rock’ costars praise Fil-Am actress
by Ruben V. Nepales
“When she wakes up, she looks like a beauty queen,” Alyson Stoner described Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, her “Camp Rock” costar and bus mate on the current concert road tour tied in with the TV movie. “That’s every day,” Alyson said in our recent interview with the cast in New York. “She’s like a doll—she’s beautiful inside and out. She has a wonderful, pure voice. I enjoy working with her.”
Anna Maria (who portrays Ella), Alyson, the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato are back in “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam,” the sequel to the No. 1 cable TV movie in the US in 2008. In addition, they perform live in shows held at large venues across the US that require them to travel in a caravan of buses. Matthew “Mdot” Finley and Jordan “J” Francis are sharing a bus with Anna Maria and Alyson.
Alyson plays Caitlyn Geller, a dance instructor, in the sequel, which premieres on Disney Channel on Sunday, Sept. 5, at 7:30 p.m. In real life, she’s been dancing professionally for a number of years, with credits that include the movie, “Step Up.” So, Alyson’s praise about Anna Maria’s dancing skills is significant. She said, “Anna Maria didn’t really dance until ‘Camp Rock 1.’ Now, she’s dancing before thousands every night like a trouper.”
The Jonas Brothers were also effusive in their praise of the granddaughter of Sylvia La Torre. Kevin said, “Anna Maria is awesome. She’s been part of the family for three years now.” Joe chimed in: “She’s an incredible talent.” Nick, for his part, remarked, “She’s one of the most talented vocalists I know. She has a big, bright future ahead of her.”
Mdot, who plays Luke, the standout performer in the rival camp, cracked, “Anna Maria is not the loud girl I thought she would be. She’s laid-back. But, she can also be funny.”
Laughing, Jordan revealed the most important rule on the bus, “You can’t do No. 2—you don’t want the bus to stink.” Still chuckling, he told me another rule addressed to the Filipino-American singer-actress: “Anna Maria, don’t take my cereals. Those are my pop tarts!”
Meaghan Martin (Tess Tyler in the movie) quipped, “We joke that Anna Maria doesn’t seem to sweat. She’s like the perfect human being. And, I love her long name.”
‘Camp Rock’ costars praise Fil-Am actress
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Filipinos have long been making names in Hollywood. They are very talented, so there is no question why they also excel in Hollywood.
“When she wakes up, she looks like a beauty queen,” Alyson Stoner described Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, her “Camp Rock” costar and bus mate on the current concert road tour tied in with the TV movie. “That’s every day,” Alyson said in our recent interview with the cast in New York. “She’s like a doll—she’s beautiful inside and out. She has a wonderful, pure voice. I enjoy working with her.”
Anna Maria (who portrays Ella), Alyson, the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato are back in “Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam,” the sequel to the No. 1 cable TV movie in the US in 2008. In addition, they perform live in shows held at large venues across the US that require them to travel in a caravan of buses. Matthew “Mdot” Finley and Jordan “J” Francis are sharing a bus with Anna Maria and Alyson.
Alyson plays Caitlyn Geller, a dance instructor, in the sequel, which premieres on Disney Channel on Sunday, Sept. 5, at 7:30 p.m. In real life, she’s been dancing professionally for a number of years, with credits that include the movie, “Step Up.” So, Alyson’s praise about Anna Maria’s dancing skills is significant. She said, “Anna Maria didn’t really dance until ‘Camp Rock 1.’ Now, she’s dancing before thousands every night like a trouper.”
The Jonas Brothers were also effusive in their praise of the granddaughter of Sylvia La Torre. Kevin said, “Anna Maria is awesome. She’s been part of the family for three years now.” Joe chimed in: “She’s an incredible talent.” Nick, for his part, remarked, “She’s one of the most talented vocalists I know. She has a big, bright future ahead of her.”
Mdot, who plays Luke, the standout performer in the rival camp, cracked, “Anna Maria is not the loud girl I thought she would be. She’s laid-back. But, she can also be funny.”
Laughing, Jordan revealed the most important rule on the bus, “You can’t do No. 2—you don’t want the bus to stink.” Still chuckling, he told me another rule addressed to the Filipino-American singer-actress: “Anna Maria, don’t take my cereals. Those are my pop tarts!”
Meaghan Martin (Tess Tyler in the movie) quipped, “We joke that Anna Maria doesn’t seem to sweat. She’s like the perfect human being. And, I love her long name.”
‘Camp Rock’ costars praise Fil-Am actress
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Filipinos have long been making names in Hollywood. They are very talented, so there is no question why they also excel in Hollywood.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
I'm not a Hollywood kid: Daniel Radcliffe
Actor Daniel Radcliffe says he is puzzled by his reputation as a Hollywood actor as he had never been to Los Angeles before the 2007 premiere of the fifth installment of the "Harry Potter" movie.
The 21-year-old admits he prefers New York, where he has appeared on Broadway, and often surprises movie executives when he reveals he's never really spent much time in Los Angeles.
"People seem to have a very bizarre perception of me - that I'm a Hollywood actor. I don't think of myself that way," imdb.com quoted him as saying.
"I went for the premiere of the fifth film, but other than that, I'd never really gone there before,"
"When I was out there and telling people it was pretty much my first trip, jaws just hit the floor. They were looking at me like I had two heads," he said.
I'm not a Hollywood kid: Daniel Radcliffe
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Daniel Radcliffe knows what he wants in life. Fans are hoping for the best in the last two Harry Potter movies.
The 21-year-old admits he prefers New York, where he has appeared on Broadway, and often surprises movie executives when he reveals he's never really spent much time in Los Angeles.
"People seem to have a very bizarre perception of me - that I'm a Hollywood actor. I don't think of myself that way," imdb.com quoted him as saying.
"I went for the premiere of the fifth film, but other than that, I'd never really gone there before,"
"When I was out there and telling people it was pretty much my first trip, jaws just hit the floor. They were looking at me like I had two heads," he said.
I'm not a Hollywood kid: Daniel Radcliffe
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Daniel Radcliffe knows what he wants in life. Fans are hoping for the best in the last two Harry Potter movies.
Ali Larter and her baby bump attend Resident Evil premiere in Tokyo
by Linny Lum
Mom-to-be Ali Larter flaunted her growing baby bump at the Tokyo premiere of ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ last night.
The actress looked “swell” in a shimmering purple frock alongside her co-star Milla Jovovich, who wore a sexy golden gown.
Hundreds of fans reportedly waited in the sweltering heat to catch a glimpse of the cast at Roppongi Hills Arena, Tokyo, Japan. “Konichiwa [Hello]! I’m so happy to be here in Tokyo, there’s nothing like the fans that are here tonight,” the Heroes star told the cheering crowd.
The ‘Resident Evil’ films, known as ‘Biohazard’ in Japan, are based on the computer games developed by Capcom. “It is so incredible to finally be in Tokyo for the world premiere of this movie,” added Jovovich.
“This is where Resident Evil was born and I’m so proud to be here with all you people.”
The film is released in the US and the UK on September 10th.
Ali Larter and her baby bump attend Resident Evil premiere in Tokyo
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Proud mom Ali Larter!
Mom-to-be Ali Larter flaunted her growing baby bump at the Tokyo premiere of ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ last night.
The actress looked “swell” in a shimmering purple frock alongside her co-star Milla Jovovich, who wore a sexy golden gown.
Hundreds of fans reportedly waited in the sweltering heat to catch a glimpse of the cast at Roppongi Hills Arena, Tokyo, Japan. “Konichiwa [Hello]! I’m so happy to be here in Tokyo, there’s nothing like the fans that are here tonight,” the Heroes star told the cheering crowd.
The ‘Resident Evil’ films, known as ‘Biohazard’ in Japan, are based on the computer games developed by Capcom. “It is so incredible to finally be in Tokyo for the world premiere of this movie,” added Jovovich.
“This is where Resident Evil was born and I’m so proud to be here with all you people.”
The film is released in the US and the UK on September 10th.
Ali Larter and her baby bump attend Resident Evil premiere in Tokyo
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Proud mom Ali Larter!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Classic Hollywood: Rare films on display at Cinecon 46
by Susan King, Los Angeles Times
The Cinecon Classic Film Festival is not for movie softies. It's for hard-core film buffs and historians who don't want to see the usual vintage fare that pops up on Turner Classic Movies or at revival theaters. So if you're looking to see "Casablanca," "Citizen Kane" or " It's a Wonderful Life," Cinecon isn't the festival for you.
"Most of the films have not been seen since their original release or have not been seen since the early days of television," says film and TV archivist/historian Stan Taffel, who is vice president of Cinecon.
The 46th edition of Cinecon takes place Thursday through Monday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The festival offers a memorabilia and collectibles show at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, along with seminars. Oscar-nominated actor Don Murray will be receiving the Cinecon Career Achievement Award at a banquet at the hotel on Sunday evening.
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Cinecon began rather humbly in 1965 at a Holiday Inn in Indiana, Pa., the hometown of Jimmy Stewart. The Society for Cinephiles Ltd. met in a small room at the hotel and showed 8-millimeter silent films from their collection.
"Little by little, people started to find rare films and it became a festival," Taffel says. Now called Cinecon, it has been in Los Angeles since the 1990s.
"We have been able to generate really good relationships with all the studios," Taffel says. "I would say one of my favorite aspects about the entire thing is that we have become personal friends with people who work at the studios in film preservation. A few of them will say, 'What do we have that we should be preserving or what you like to see be preserved?' Those of us on the board, including Cinecon President Bob Birchard, have films we would love to see, things we have never seen before."
Taffel's favorite "cause" these days is a silent and sound comedian named Charley Chase, who besides acting in film also directed movies. "He was involved in some 400 films in various capacities," he says. "I have spent most of my life tracking down as many films of his that he either worked in front of or behind the camera."
For this festival, he's running a 1937 Charley Chase comedy, "From Bad to Worse," that hasn't been screened in 73 years. "It's one of his first Columbia shorts. We are delighted. It's a brand-new print that has been struck from original elements."
Other rarities being screened include a 1928 Frank Capra gangster drama, "The Way of the Strong" and a 1930 version of Jack London's "The Sea Wolf," starring acclaimed actor Milton Sills, who died shortly after its release at the age of 48.
But the biggest draw of Cinecon is the re-premiere Saturday of the 1914 Keystone comedy "A Thief Catcher," which features Charlie Chaplin in one of his first screen appearances and in a non-Tramp role.
"I don't think any film is lost," Taffel says. "My rule is no film is lost, they are just MIA."
"A Thief Catcher" was discovered last November at an antiques show in Taylor, Mich., by filmmaker and film historian Paul E. Gierucki.
"I travel all around the world searching for classic films, trying to restore them, release them on DVD and put them on Turner Classic Movies," Gierucki says. "I have found things like Harry Langdon's home movies, some Buster Keaton work prints and Laurel and Hardy trailers."
He went to the antiques show just for fun when his eyes caught a vintage streamer trunk. "I flipped open the top and inside there was a large stack of 16mm films. Nothing was marked or labeled, so I sat down on the floor in the middle of the antiques show just trying to go through all the films."
The majority of the films weren't worth noting, but he bought about five of the films, including one called 'His Regular Job," which he recognized as a reissue of a Keystone Kops silent comedy. He took them home where they sat on a shelf while he worked on another project.
Months later, he final got to cleaning the print of the comedy and put it on his projector. "I started watching it and realized it was a reissue print of 'A Thief Catcher.' This was a lost title that starred Ford Sterling … and then about midway through a scene, two cops wander in from the right side and one of them looked a whole heck of a lot like Chaplin. He was dressed as a cop, but the movement, the face … I had to stop the projector and run it back.
"I must have watched it four times before it dawned on me, it was Chaplin in an undocumented film appearance. It's a very funny segment. Ford Sterling is fantastic, but no question that Chaplin comes in and steals the show. Chaplin's career is so thoroughly documented, so to find something like this is as rare as they come."
For the schedule and more information about Cinecon 46, go to http://www.cinecon.org.
Classic Hollywood: Rare films on display at Cinecon 46
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This is Hollywood classic at its best! I hope everyone is going to watch the Hollywood classics!
The Cinecon Classic Film Festival is not for movie softies. It's for hard-core film buffs and historians who don't want to see the usual vintage fare that pops up on Turner Classic Movies or at revival theaters. So if you're looking to see "Casablanca," "Citizen Kane" or " It's a Wonderful Life," Cinecon isn't the festival for you.
"Most of the films have not been seen since their original release or have not been seen since the early days of television," says film and TV archivist/historian Stan Taffel, who is vice president of Cinecon.
The 46th edition of Cinecon takes place Thursday through Monday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The festival offers a memorabilia and collectibles show at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, along with seminars. Oscar-nominated actor Don Murray will be receiving the Cinecon Career Achievement Award at a banquet at the hotel on Sunday evening.
Get breaking entertainment news, delivered to your mobile phone. Text ENTERTAIN to 52669.
Cinecon began rather humbly in 1965 at a Holiday Inn in Indiana, Pa., the hometown of Jimmy Stewart. The Society for Cinephiles Ltd. met in a small room at the hotel and showed 8-millimeter silent films from their collection.
"Little by little, people started to find rare films and it became a festival," Taffel says. Now called Cinecon, it has been in Los Angeles since the 1990s.
"We have been able to generate really good relationships with all the studios," Taffel says. "I would say one of my favorite aspects about the entire thing is that we have become personal friends with people who work at the studios in film preservation. A few of them will say, 'What do we have that we should be preserving or what you like to see be preserved?' Those of us on the board, including Cinecon President Bob Birchard, have films we would love to see, things we have never seen before."
Taffel's favorite "cause" these days is a silent and sound comedian named Charley Chase, who besides acting in film also directed movies. "He was involved in some 400 films in various capacities," he says. "I have spent most of my life tracking down as many films of his that he either worked in front of or behind the camera."
For this festival, he's running a 1937 Charley Chase comedy, "From Bad to Worse," that hasn't been screened in 73 years. "It's one of his first Columbia shorts. We are delighted. It's a brand-new print that has been struck from original elements."
Other rarities being screened include a 1928 Frank Capra gangster drama, "The Way of the Strong" and a 1930 version of Jack London's "The Sea Wolf," starring acclaimed actor Milton Sills, who died shortly after its release at the age of 48.
But the biggest draw of Cinecon is the re-premiere Saturday of the 1914 Keystone comedy "A Thief Catcher," which features Charlie Chaplin in one of his first screen appearances and in a non-Tramp role.
"I don't think any film is lost," Taffel says. "My rule is no film is lost, they are just MIA."
"A Thief Catcher" was discovered last November at an antiques show in Taylor, Mich., by filmmaker and film historian Paul E. Gierucki.
"I travel all around the world searching for classic films, trying to restore them, release them on DVD and put them on Turner Classic Movies," Gierucki says. "I have found things like Harry Langdon's home movies, some Buster Keaton work prints and Laurel and Hardy trailers."
He went to the antiques show just for fun when his eyes caught a vintage streamer trunk. "I flipped open the top and inside there was a large stack of 16mm films. Nothing was marked or labeled, so I sat down on the floor in the middle of the antiques show just trying to go through all the films."
The majority of the films weren't worth noting, but he bought about five of the films, including one called 'His Regular Job," which he recognized as a reissue of a Keystone Kops silent comedy. He took them home where they sat on a shelf while he worked on another project.
Months later, he final got to cleaning the print of the comedy and put it on his projector. "I started watching it and realized it was a reissue print of 'A Thief Catcher.' This was a lost title that starred Ford Sterling … and then about midway through a scene, two cops wander in from the right side and one of them looked a whole heck of a lot like Chaplin. He was dressed as a cop, but the movement, the face … I had to stop the projector and run it back.
"I must have watched it four times before it dawned on me, it was Chaplin in an undocumented film appearance. It's a very funny segment. Ford Sterling is fantastic, but no question that Chaplin comes in and steals the show. Chaplin's career is so thoroughly documented, so to find something like this is as rare as they come."
For the schedule and more information about Cinecon 46, go to http://www.cinecon.org.
Classic Hollywood: Rare films on display at Cinecon 46
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This is Hollywood classic at its best! I hope everyone is going to watch the Hollywood classics!
Lindsay Lohan’s Ill-Timed ‘Comeback’ Role
by Jay A. Fernandez
Poor Lindsay. She can’t catch a break.
Released early from rehab and suddenly free again to pursue personal and professional rehabilitation, Lindsay Lohan has an opportunity to re-enter the public consciousness with the seriousness of a newly clean starlet intent on sobriety. And then here comes “Machete” (check out the review here).
When Robert Rodriguez’s Mexploitation flick opens Friday, Lohan will have been out of jail and rehab for a mere 10 days. And the vision that fans, family and friends will see of her in the film is that of a rich, spoiled junkie who makes money on the side by doing homemade sex videos. With her mom.
She can kiss those Kids’ Choice Awards goodbye.
“I want my career back,” Lohan apparently told Vanity Fair in an interview last month before heading to jail. If that’s so, she’s not doing herself any favors. Unless the career she wants is Denise Richards’.
For most actors, a public image is cultivated like a rare plant that needs endless sunlight while being constantly cleaned of dirt. For Lohan the last few years, it’s been more like a Ferrari she takes straight from the car wash to the demolition derby.
Machete backseat 300x185 Lindsay Lohans Ill Timed Comeback RoleAs April, the errant daughter of a corrupt political operative, Lohan makes her entrance in “Machete” passed out on a filthy matress in a drug den surrounded by gun-toting ruffians. Rescued by her pop, she is dumped into a car and swivels her drugged-out face toward him to say, “Sorry, Daddy.”
In real life, Lohan feels she’s the one owed an apology. “I think if anyone should be looked at medically it’s him,” she said to Vanity Fair about her dad, Michael Lohan. The dad in the film does get his -- after revealing that he has an unhealthy fixation on his daughter.
Machete waterfall 300x170 Lindsay Lohans Ill Timed Comeback RoleMost of the rest of Lohan’s screen time is then spent naked, after filming a sex video that includes the vengeance-seeking Machete and her character’s mother -- and, courtesy of Machete, a large bottle of tequila. (In the film's pool sequence, April's face is obscured, so it's not clear that Lohan didn't use a body double for those shots.) When she finally covers her body back up late in the movie, it’s to put on a nun’s habit and strafe a riot of knife-wielding Mexicans with a submachine gun. (Check out the trailer with the NSFW pool sequence below.)
Granted, all of this is surely the very fun Rodriguez and Lohan were probably hoping to have with a ridiculous character that would play off Lohan’s wrecked public image. But that convent has sailed.
Lohan was cast in the “Machete” role in early August last year, a development she hinted at herself at the time via Twitter. While the entertainment business is all fun and games and roles are simply roles, Lohan had already spent the previous two and a half years rolling in the public mud.
In January 2007 she checked into rehab for the first time, but then she was arrested in May for suspected driving under the influece. More rehab and more arrests and lawsuits followed over the next two years.
In July 2009 her film “Labor Pains” gets bumped from theaters to ABC Family, and then she was in court again in October 2009 for a probation hearing relating to her DUI charges.
If during that time she or her reps were looking to burnish her image, the “Machete” role was probably not the best move. Her reps at CAA and Untitled Entertainment had no comment on the decision.
She got sprung from rehab the day of the film’s downtown L.A. premiere last Wednesday but did not show up to share the spotlight with co-stars Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez. Insiders strolling the red carpet let on that reps for the studio, the filmmakers and Lohan had mutually agreed that her presence would have caused too much of a disruption were she to attend, pulling all the attention away from the film.
Reached about the premiere issue, Lohan’s mother Dina emailed: “We are in a great place and I am not commenting there!”
Lohan's next planned project is “Inferno,” an indie biopic about “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace. While under different circumstances this role could provide an edgy dramatic turn to burnish an actor’s resume, it will more likely burnish Lohan’s image as damaged goods adrift in the wake of her own crippling life. She’s not Charlize Theron taking on “Monster,” or Jennifer Connelly doing "Requiem for a Dream."
What Lohan needs is a quiet role as a guidance counselor on “Parenthood,” or a “Wrestler”-style drama built around her by a gifted filmmaker. Maybe a straightforward role in the ensemble of a big disaster film. But -- for now, anyway -- roles that perpetuate the perception that she has no control over herself or her life may be destined to undercut the career resurgence she claims she wants.
“I know that I’m a damn good actress,” Lohan said to Vanity Fair. “And I know that when I care about something, I put 100% and more into it.”
The question is how much she really cares about it.
Lindsay Lohan’s Ill-Timed ‘Comeback’ Role
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Poor Lindsay Lohan. She caught a very bad Hollywood bug and couldn't recover. Is it really her fault or our's?
Poor Lindsay. She can’t catch a break.
Released early from rehab and suddenly free again to pursue personal and professional rehabilitation, Lindsay Lohan has an opportunity to re-enter the public consciousness with the seriousness of a newly clean starlet intent on sobriety. And then here comes “Machete” (check out the review here).
When Robert Rodriguez’s Mexploitation flick opens Friday, Lohan will have been out of jail and rehab for a mere 10 days. And the vision that fans, family and friends will see of her in the film is that of a rich, spoiled junkie who makes money on the side by doing homemade sex videos. With her mom.
She can kiss those Kids’ Choice Awards goodbye.
“I want my career back,” Lohan apparently told Vanity Fair in an interview last month before heading to jail. If that’s so, she’s not doing herself any favors. Unless the career she wants is Denise Richards’.
For most actors, a public image is cultivated like a rare plant that needs endless sunlight while being constantly cleaned of dirt. For Lohan the last few years, it’s been more like a Ferrari she takes straight from the car wash to the demolition derby.
Machete backseat 300x185 Lindsay Lohans Ill Timed Comeback RoleAs April, the errant daughter of a corrupt political operative, Lohan makes her entrance in “Machete” passed out on a filthy matress in a drug den surrounded by gun-toting ruffians. Rescued by her pop, she is dumped into a car and swivels her drugged-out face toward him to say, “Sorry, Daddy.”
In real life, Lohan feels she’s the one owed an apology. “I think if anyone should be looked at medically it’s him,” she said to Vanity Fair about her dad, Michael Lohan. The dad in the film does get his -- after revealing that he has an unhealthy fixation on his daughter.
Machete waterfall 300x170 Lindsay Lohans Ill Timed Comeback RoleMost of the rest of Lohan’s screen time is then spent naked, after filming a sex video that includes the vengeance-seeking Machete and her character’s mother -- and, courtesy of Machete, a large bottle of tequila. (In the film's pool sequence, April's face is obscured, so it's not clear that Lohan didn't use a body double for those shots.) When she finally covers her body back up late in the movie, it’s to put on a nun’s habit and strafe a riot of knife-wielding Mexicans with a submachine gun. (Check out the trailer with the NSFW pool sequence below.)
Granted, all of this is surely the very fun Rodriguez and Lohan were probably hoping to have with a ridiculous character that would play off Lohan’s wrecked public image. But that convent has sailed.
Lohan was cast in the “Machete” role in early August last year, a development she hinted at herself at the time via Twitter. While the entertainment business is all fun and games and roles are simply roles, Lohan had already spent the previous two and a half years rolling in the public mud.
In January 2007 she checked into rehab for the first time, but then she was arrested in May for suspected driving under the influece. More rehab and more arrests and lawsuits followed over the next two years.
In July 2009 her film “Labor Pains” gets bumped from theaters to ABC Family, and then she was in court again in October 2009 for a probation hearing relating to her DUI charges.
If during that time she or her reps were looking to burnish her image, the “Machete” role was probably not the best move. Her reps at CAA and Untitled Entertainment had no comment on the decision.
She got sprung from rehab the day of the film’s downtown L.A. premiere last Wednesday but did not show up to share the spotlight with co-stars Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez. Insiders strolling the red carpet let on that reps for the studio, the filmmakers and Lohan had mutually agreed that her presence would have caused too much of a disruption were she to attend, pulling all the attention away from the film.
Reached about the premiere issue, Lohan’s mother Dina emailed: “We are in a great place and I am not commenting there!”
Lohan's next planned project is “Inferno,” an indie biopic about “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace. While under different circumstances this role could provide an edgy dramatic turn to burnish an actor’s resume, it will more likely burnish Lohan’s image as damaged goods adrift in the wake of her own crippling life. She’s not Charlize Theron taking on “Monster,” or Jennifer Connelly doing "Requiem for a Dream."
What Lohan needs is a quiet role as a guidance counselor on “Parenthood,” or a “Wrestler”-style drama built around her by a gifted filmmaker. Maybe a straightforward role in the ensemble of a big disaster film. But -- for now, anyway -- roles that perpetuate the perception that she has no control over herself or her life may be destined to undercut the career resurgence she claims she wants.
“I know that I’m a damn good actress,” Lohan said to Vanity Fair. “And I know that when I care about something, I put 100% and more into it.”
The question is how much she really cares about it.
Lindsay Lohan’s Ill-Timed ‘Comeback’ Role
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Poor Lindsay Lohan. She caught a very bad Hollywood bug and couldn't recover. Is it really her fault or our's?
Friday, September 3, 2010
Sandra Bullock -- The most powerful actress in Hollywood
by EW staff
Sandra Bullock mulls her next move — most likely starring opposite Tom Hanks in an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close — EW takes a look inside her stunning comeback, examining how she consciously retooled her career, how she transcended the tabloid noise, and where she might go from here.
One thing’s for sure: Bullock has no shortage of options. At age 46, a decade and a half after she jumped on the bus in Speed, the actress is being courted for virtually every female starring role Hollywood has to offer, from a Disney family fable called The Odd Life of Timothy Green to Our Wild Life, a drama about an elephant orphanage. There’s also the action comedy EW reported about exclusively in June called Most Wanted, in which she’d star as a criminal suspect being escorted to the courthouse by a U.S. marshal (played by her Proposal costar Ryan Reynolds).
”Every movie you hear about and every script I see, they say, ‘We’re going after Sandra Bullock for the woman,’ ” says Ben Affleck, who costarred with Bullock in 1999′s Forces of Nature. “She’s the golden girl,” says a top Hollywood agent. “Everyone is rooting for her. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Indeed, it’s been quite a year for the actress: The two biggest hits of her career. A Best Actress Oscar. A tabloid firestorm. A new baby. EW examines her rising status in Hollywood, and how, thanks to the intangible chemical reaction that creates stardom, she’s always had a knack for making audiences fall in love with her. “From the minute we saw her in Speed, she just had this quality that people want to be around,” says Bradley Cooper, who costarred with Bullock in last year’s All About Steve. “It’s like being around a source of light.”
Sandra Bullock -- The most powerful actress in Hollywood
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Sandra Bullock is the undisputed Hollywood darling. She's still gonna go a long way.
Cate Blanchett makes top five for Hollywood value for money
Australian actress Cate Blanchett has ranked fifth in a list of the most value-for-money Hollywood actors.
But the list was topped by Shia LaBeouf, who was named the most value-for-money actor in Hollywood for the second year in a row.
LaBeouf topped a survey by Forbes to find the star who pulls in the most money for movie bosses, with LaBeouf earning an estimated $US81 ($90.81) in profit for every $US1 ($1.12) he is paid.
The 24-year-old, who has appeared in a string of high profile blockbusters including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, topped the same poll last year.
Anne Hathaway, whose hit Disney movie Alice in Wonderland recently passed the $US1 billion ($1.12 billion) mark at the worldwide box office, came in second, followed by Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Downey Jr and Cate Blanchett.
Cate Blanchett makes top five for Hollywood value for money
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Cate Blanchett is a good actress. It's no wonder she's worth every penny in Hollywood.
But the list was topped by Shia LaBeouf, who was named the most value-for-money actor in Hollywood for the second year in a row.
LaBeouf topped a survey by Forbes to find the star who pulls in the most money for movie bosses, with LaBeouf earning an estimated $US81 ($90.81) in profit for every $US1 ($1.12) he is paid.
The 24-year-old, who has appeared in a string of high profile blockbusters including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, topped the same poll last year.
Anne Hathaway, whose hit Disney movie Alice in Wonderland recently passed the $US1 billion ($1.12 billion) mark at the worldwide box office, came in second, followed by Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Downey Jr and Cate Blanchett.
Cate Blanchett makes top five for Hollywood value for money
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Cate Blanchett is a good actress. It's no wonder she's worth every penny in Hollywood.
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