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Nick Cassavetes to Direct Kristen Stewart in Cali

9 May 2012, 4:17 am

Kristen StewartNick Cassavetes will direct the previously announced Kristen Stewart in the upcoming romantic action comedy Cali.

The Michael Diliberti penned script follows a young San Fernando couple who sell a fake snuff film to make some quick cash. Years later, the woman who supposedly “died” on film must return to her hometown to save her younger sister from trouble. Complications thus ensue.

Producer Zev Foreman had this to say about Nick Cassavetes boarding the project. “Nick’s the perfect director for this gritty, L.A.-based story and will smartly balance the dynamic action with a true love story. Nick’s record of working with top talent continues here in his collaboration with Kristen Stewart.”

The film is set for a late summer start date. Cali comes to theaters in 2014 and stars Kristen Stewart.

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Rihanna to Perform on American Idol Finale

9 May 2012, 3:55 am

RihannaRihanna is returning to “American Idol.” The “Rude Boy” singer will perform on the two-hour ‘Idol” season finale on May 23. The songbird will perform her recent hit “Where Have You Been.”

Rihanna (full name: Robyn Rihanna Fenty) has appeared twice before on the show. In April 2010, she performed her song “Rockstar 101,” and returned the following April to belt out her song “California King Bed.”

As season 11 winds to a close, other guest performers are also being brought aboard. On the May 10 results show, “Idol” judge Jennifer Lopez will perform her single “Dance Again.” Season Seven winner David Cook will also be in attendance to perform “The Last Song I’ll Write for You.”

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Opening Friday: Dark Shadows

9 May 2012, 3:48 am

Johnny Depp stars as vampire Barnabas Collins in an adaptation of the classic gothic soap opera.

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas has the world at his feet — or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine.

The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy… until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard. A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive.

Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman, to help with her family troubles.

Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins; her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard; and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins.

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Pentagon refuses to help ‘Avengers’

9 May 2012, 3:35 am

The Avengers

The U.S. Defense Department often provides jets to action films but doesn’t support the blockbuster.

You know all that military action that goes on in a lot of Hollywood blockbuster films? Well, the U.S. government usually likes to get involved to help filmmakers more realistically portray it.

This was not the case with “Marvel’s The Avengers.” The U.S. Defense Department pulled out because they deemed the film too unrealistic.

Perhaps it was the aliens. Or maybe it was the superheroes. Well, it was actually the ambiguity of secret military law-enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D., portrayed in the film, that did “Avengers” in.

From a recent Wired report: “We couldn’t reconcile the unreality of this international organization and our place in it,” Phil Strub, the Defense Department’s Hollywood liaison, tells Danger Room. “To whom did S.H.I.E.L.D. answer? Did we work for S.H.I.E.L.D.? We hit that roadblock and decided we couldn’t do anything” with the film.

(Not to deviate from the topic, but doesn’t Strub have, like, the coolest job on the planet?)

One example of the U.S. military’s lack of involvement in “Avengers” is the fact that a few of the military’s latest stealth jets that appear in the film were actually added digitally by the studio — they were not real jets provided by the Pentagon, Wired further reports.

The Pentagon has greenlit military involvement, providing drones and jets for films including “Iron Man,” “Transformers,” and “Eagle Eye.” The secretary of the Navy even appears in the upcoming “Battleship,” starring Rihanna and Taylor Kitsch, in theaters May 18th.

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Amanda Seyfried transformed into Linda Lovelace

3 May 2012, 7:27 pm

Amanda SeyfriedAmanda Seyfried has completely transformed for her role as the ’70s porn star Linda Lovelace. The actress, who starred in “Mamma Mia!” and the romance “Dear John,” is now featured on a racy new poster for the biopic “Lovelace,” and she’s virtually unrecognizable. She shows some skin in a lacy red bra, a big brunette ‘do, and a sultry, heavily made-up look.

In some ways, the actress almost seems to take it a step too far: She comes across as more outwardly sexy than Lovelace in many of her photos: The porn star seems to be sunny and smiling, crowned with her trademark curly brown hair.

The upcoming drama centers around Lovelace’s life as the star of the first porn movie with a plot, 1972′s “Deep Throat,” and her awful-sounding pornographer husband, Chuck Traynor, played by Peter Sarsgaard. James Franco channels a young Hugh Hefner in the film.

Lovelace went from a porn superstar to an anti-porn activist, claiming that her husband had forced her to do “Deep Throat” at gunpoint, among other things.

The 26-year-old, with her doe eyes and blond hair, certainly didn’t seem to be an obvious choice, but as her sizzling poster pose proves, she’s got what it takes.

There is another Linda Lovelace biopic in the works. That project, called “Inferno,” made headlines first when Lindsay Lohan was cast in the lead role, and then again when she dropped out. Malin Akerman is currently slated to play Lovelace in that film, but she recently told The Hollywood Reporter, “I don’t know if that’s even going to go.”

“Lovelace” is expected to be released later this year.

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Jessica Simpson to get back her weight-loss plan

3 May 2012, 7:20 pm

Jessica SimpsonThe new mom reportedly has at least two good motivations to get back into her Daisy Dukes.

Now that Jessica Simpson has finally delivered her bundle of joy, she’s apparently prepared to lose weight for a bundle of cash.

Last December, the New York Post reported that the star had inked a $3 million deal with Weight Watchers to become its spokesperson. That means we could watch the reality TV star go from maternity duds to her Daisy Dukes.

The fashion mogul, who jokingly called herself “fat” while pregnant, has another motivation: She is planning to wed her fiancé, Eric Johnson, and would probably like to be slimmed down for her walk down the aisle.

Us Weekly, citing an unnamed source says Simpson “would have one year to use the point-counting program to ‘lose a significant amount of weight.’”

Then, as those familiar with the program know, there would be the big reveal of skinny Jessica, who would appear in ads for the diet company touting its formula for success.

The 31-year-old wouldn’t be the first star to cash in on her post-baby weight gain. Current spokeswoman Jennifer Hudson signed on with Weight Watchers after giving birth and lost 80 pounds on the diet plan.

And good news for the star, who has been enjoying being off diet and exercise of late: The Points Plus plan is flexible, assigning a number value to foods that dieters already eat. So J-Simp won’t have to give up the sandwiches (11 points) she craved throughout her pregnancy. All that’s required is simple math.

Simpson told Hello magazine that she put on 40 pounds during pregnancy, and added, "Eating and not having to worry too much about it has been fun. But I’m ready for it to be over. I’m ready to have my body back.

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Buzz about Angelina and Brad movie

13 April 2012, 9:38 pm

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

The two are in talks to star in a gritty thriller — their first project since “Mr and Mrs Smith.”

Brad Pitt is close to signing on to a Ridley Scott film in which Angelina Jolie is also circling, Deadline Hollywood reports. If all lights turn green, this would be the first time the couple has shared screen time since “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” — the 2005 film in which the celebrity pair are said to have first fallen in love (while Pitt was still married to actress Jennifer Aniston).

Pitt and actor Javier Bardem are said to be close to signing on, and Jolie is vying for the female lead, according to the Deadline report. The thriller, called “The Counselor,” stars Hollywood “it” man Michael Fassbender, while Oscar winner Natalie Portman and Jeremy Renner have also been rumored to be in the film. “The Counselor” is about a lawyer (Fassbender) who falls in too deep with drug trafficking.

It starts shooting in June in Europe—a convenient location to Scott’s and Jolie – Pitt’s respective homes in the south of France. Jolie has voiced the desire to work again with Pitt. In 2010 this is what she told Vanity Fair: I’d love to. We’ve talked about it. We’d have to figure out who’s going to watch the kids, but it’s really about finding the right thing, because we’ve looked. When you’re a couple, there are certain things people don’t want to see you do. It becomes too indulgent, too personal. I don’t think people want to see people who are really together intimate on-screen. Maybe we have to play bad guys that try to kill each other, so it’s just fun and aggressive, not dealing with some man-woman deal.

“The Counselor” will be Scott’s next directorial effort after “Prometheus,” also starring Fassbender (alongside Charlize Theron), due out in theaters June 8.

All About Angelina Jolie

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The Hunger Games passes $300 million over Easter

13 April 2012, 4:16 am

The Hunger Games crowds

Despite the entrance of two competitive titles to the marketplace over Easter Weekend, box office phenomenon The Hunger Games had little difficulty taking the top spot for the third-straight frame. American Reunion opened in second place, though its debut doesn’t compare favorably to earlier series entries, while Titanic 3D wound up on the low-end among 3D re-releases. The Top 12 earned around $114 million this weekend, which is up 11 percent from the same period last year but off a bit from Easter 2011 (which was later in the month).

The Hunger Games dropped 43 percent to $33.1 million. That’s the seventh-highest second weekend of all-time, and it’s the best since Alice in Wonderland in March 2010. Based on Lionsgate’s projections, the movie will pass $300 million on Easter Sunday, which is only its 17th day in theaters. That’s the seventh-fastest pace ever, and it ranks third behind Avatar and Titanic among non-sequels. Its $302.5 million total is more than the final tally of all of the Twilight movies and all but two of the Harry Potter flicks. Based on its current trajectory, The Hunger Games should end up with at least $350 million.

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George Harrison: Living in the Material World Masterprint

13 April 2012, 3:55 am

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Jennifer Lawrence will return to past

13 April 2012, 3:48 am

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Serena.

Jennifer Lawrence’s Hunger Games character Katniss lives in the future, but in her latest upcoming role, she plays a woman from the past – 1929, to be exact.

Starring opposite Bradley Cooper in Serena, set for a 2013 release, the actress, 21, plays his wife who can’t bear a child – and then commits a murder that involves a child her husband had before the marriage.

Glammed up in a fur-lined jacket with blonde curls, Lawrence is pictured next to her handsome on-screen husband, clad in a suit and tie, with a hat.

The movie, based on a 2009 novel by Ron Rash, is directed by Oscar winner (for the Danish drama, In a Better World) Susan Bier.

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