E! Online - Britney Spears hasn’t given up on love. The former Mrs. Kevin Federline says she’d like another walk down the aisle.
Reuters - Sir David Frost says a new film about his historical interview with former U.S. President Richard Nixon is better than the stage play it is based on, but “there are one or two small bits it could do without.”
“From the beginning, I told the studio, ‘I don’t think this is gonna be a movie for four-year-olds.’ And I think they said ‘Oh, okay,’ but I think that when they saw it, that’s another… you know, that’s something else.”- Spike JonzeWhere the Wild Things Are. The film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak book. It’s part of our collective childhood. And next October it will become part of our multiplex. Will it live up to near insurmountable expectations and become the instant classic we all want it to be? Or will Fox have meddled with the unique Jonze vision enough to forever taint the story’s good name? Let’s go Where The Spoilers Are and find out…
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Empire Online has the first photo outside of Comic-Con of Taylor Kitsch as Remy LeBeau, otherwise known as “Gambit,” from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Leading up to the events of X-Men, Wolverine tells the story of Wolverine’s epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed, and the ominous Weapon X program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new, including surprise appearances by several legends of the X-Men universe.”X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Directed by Gavin Hood and starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Will.i.am, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney and Lynn Collins., kicks off Summer on May 1st, 2009.
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Reuters - Holding a red velvet cupcake with white frosting and colored sprinkles, Akon stands atop an extended conference room table at Universal Records’ New York headquarters. He’s ecstatic.
Reuters - Getting a jump on rival awards groups, the International Press Academy announced its nominees Sunday for its 13th annual Satellite Awards.
Reuters - Terrorism has cast a shadow over Bollywood, India’s Mumbai-based film industry, but as the smoke clears from Wednesday’s attacks on Mumbai, Hollywood studios with Indian interests remain committed to the region.
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I have all this TV time on my hands now that the first season of “True Blood” has ended and so I’m playing catch up with my DVDs.Today, I watched season one, volume two of “Love, American Style” (CBS DVD, $35.98) and laughed a bunch. Gotta love Aaron Spelling.The late Vivian Vance, who
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Variety has an interesting article on 3-D as the future of cinema. “Amid the buzz, there’s already some backlash, notably from critic Roger Ebert and L.A. Times blogger Patrick Goldstein, who’ve been skeptical about its creative potential. Some in the 3-D community have worried that when an expensive 3-D release flops, as some inevitably will, the industry will sour on stereo. Avatar producer Jon Landau says the key is not to count on 3-D to sell an otherwise weak picture.“Technology does not have to live up to the hype; storytelling does,” says Landau. “If you do not make a good movie, you could be in black-and-white, you could be in mono, it does not matter. People are not going to go.”Disney’s Mark Zoradi says there is a risk of overhype, but echoes Landau: “If a movie fails in 3-D, then it probably would have failed in 2-D as well. You would go back to the script and the overall story. If a movie fails in CGI, you wouldn’t say it should be done in 2-D.”The bottom line, Landau says, is: “I think we are beyond the blame game as it relates to 3-D. History has proven to us at the recent box office that 3-D works and people are seeking out that experience.”James Cameron’s AVATAR aims to take 3D to- umm…a new dimension, on December 18, 2009.
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Reuters - Irish singer-songwriter Laura Izibor didn’t know she could sing until she was 13, but once she did, she knew she was on to something.
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