 | The Ruins - Trailer 1a Based on the terrifying best-seller by Scott Smith, “The Ruins” follows a group of friends who become entangled in a brutal struggle for survival after visiting a remote archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle - where they discover something deadly living among the ruins. “The Ruins” stars Jonathan Tucker (“The Black Donnellys”), Jena Malone (“Pride and Prejudice”), Shawn Ashmore (“X-Men: The Last Stand”), Laura Ramsey (“She’s the Man”) and Joe Anderson (“Across the Universe”). The film is directed by Carter Smith from a screenplay by Scott B. Smith. Directed by: Carter Smith Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Laura Ramsey, Joe Anderson |
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The Ruins – Trailer 1a
Friday, February 8th, 2008Condition: Marginal
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Update: My cold is getting worse, so I’m going to sit out picketing this afternoon in hopes of rallying for another WGA commitment tonight.
Curv Entertainment Group's Interactive Division Launches Financial Social Bookmarking Site Globalmarketwire.com
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Feb. 7, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Curv Entertainment Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:CEGO), through its newly established internet division, Curv Interactive, announced today the launching of its first web property called Globalmarketwire.com
Thursday picketing
Thursday, February 7th, 2008I’ll be picketing at NBC this afternoon, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. I’m fighting a cold, so if I don’t shake your hand, please take no offense.
What? No Roberto Benigni?!
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Blogger Edward Copeland likes movies and he likes lists; he just posted the results of an unscientifically conducted Best Best Actor poll and the rundown of the top 20 is thought-provoking and far-ranging. It starts with Jimmy Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story" and ends with -- well, see for yourself. The funny thing is that if you look at all the candidates, it's a pretty inarguable group of performances.
Copeland's also busy making lists over at Television Without Pity: he has one on the all-time Worst Oscar Wins by Decade (The 1960s: Kate Hepburn's Best Actress for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? -- a brave choice but the correct one) and the Ten Most Memorable Oscar Moments, which has the expected streakers and bogus Native Americans accepting for Marlon Brando but misses at least one biggie: John Wayne's 1978 farewell.
Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz Shoot Steamy Lesbian Scene for Woody?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Filed under: RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking
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Pictured: Scarlett Johansson in a scene from Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
While it's still too early to say which scenes we'll all be talking about at the end of the year, I'm putting my money on a couple scenes from Woody Allen's upcoming Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Not long ago, word got out that, among other things, the film would feature an all-out threesome between Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Okay. Woody's getting a little nutty in his old age ... but we dig it. Now, according to Page Six, that so-called threesome was just the beginning -- they say the film also includes a "steamy lesbian sex scene" between Johansson and Cruz. Here's my question: Are both these scenes really warranted, or did Woody simply want to see how far he could push his muse sexually?
A source told Page Six, "It is also extremely erotic. People will be blown away and even shocked. Penelope and Scarlett go at it in a red-tinted photography dark room, and it will leave the audience gasping." Personally, I think it will leave the audience feeling a lot of different emotions -- some of which may be explored further in the theater bathroom following the film. (Note to self: Don't sit next to the guy who's placed an empty bucket of popcorn on his ....) The film, which marks Allen's first feature shot in Spain, follows two American tourists who become romantically entangled with a painter. Rebecca Hall, Chris Messina and Patricia Clarkson also star. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is due out later this year, though I imagine it might premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May if a cut is ready.
Top 25 Sex Scenes of All Time?
Top 50 Sex Scenes of All Time?
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Permalink | Email this | CommentsJennifer Lopez Says She Feels Great
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
With all the stars making the rounds for N.Y.C. Fashion Week, the fashion flock is getting even more jaded than usual. But despite the dazzling gowns at Marchesa, all eyes were definitely on nine-months-pregnant (with twins!) Jennifer Lopez, looking as gorgeous as any of the models in her own silky teal Marchesa dress that highlighted off her growing belly. Sure, she looks fantastic, but how’s pregnancy really treating her? “I’m feeling good,” the almost-due singer says of her decision to check out the new collection along with husband Marc Anthony. “I haven’t gone out a lot for the past few months”, she admits, “but Marchesa has been incredibly good to me. They are just amazing!” And while most moms-to-be stick to comfort wear, the always-glam Jennifer says sweats are not an option. “People make fun of me because when I do have them over to my house I do have a dress on,” she laughs. “I don’t like the way the sweats look with the extra weight. I like to feel good about myself even at home.” And while the singer won’t be able to wear any of Marchesa’s red carpet confections anytime soon, she does have her eye on a few special looks. But, Lopez admits “Right now the best thing I can do for myself, for my body is to keep resting which is not easy for me. I like keeping busy and it is very hard because if they say ‘be off your feet for four hours a day’, I’m like ‘oh, God!’ It’s hard.” If she looks this good at nine months, we can’t wait to see her back in action!
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Britney’s First Night Home from the Hospital
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Britney Spears spent her first night out of the hospital at home with her family, after what was a dramatic day with the pop star driving around L.A.
After her surprise early release from the UCLA Medical Center’s psych ward, Spears spent much of Wednesday bouncing around the city – speeding off with one paparazzi pal, getting a room at the Beverly Hills Hotel and visiting with lawyer Adam Streisand.
But the singer’s first night of freedom was uneventful (at least from the outside). After sneaking out of the law office in Century City, the 26-year-old singer and her paparazzo-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib reportedly stopped at a restaurant in the Valley. The two were then driven back to Spears’s Summit Circle house in Studio City by a photographer from the X17 photo agency.
The singer’s father, Jamie – who has been named co-conservator of her $40-million fortune – was spotted at the Beverly Hills Hotel Wednesday evening and was “tired looking,” says one witness. He was briefly escorted to a room, but later returned to the Summit house, where Spears, Ghalib, and the singer’s mother, Lynne, were all gathered.
After midnight, Lynne drove away from the house in her Range Rover. Mobbed by photographers, she ducked behind the steering wheel to shield herself from the snappers.
As night turned into morning, Spears and Jamie remained inside the house.
Spears’s confidante, Sam Lutfi – who has been accused of drugging Britney and has been ordered to keep his distance from the singer – has yet to resurface.
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Angelina Jolie in Iraq to Help Refugees
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Shining onstage at the Santa Barbara Film Festival only last Saturday, Angelina Jolie showed up a world away – in every respect – on Thursday: Baghdad.
The goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 32, is there on a U.S. government mission with the State Department to Iraq. She is accompanying Under secretary of State Paula Dobriansky “to learn more about the humanitarian crisis and the 4 million displaced people, 58 percent of whom are under 12,” says her philanthropic adviser, Trevor Neilson.
“There’s lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of talk at the moment, and a lot of pieces that need to be put together. I’m trying to figure out what they are,” Jolie, calling for a more coherent plan for the refugees to trickle back to their homes, said as part of an interview with CNN .
“What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire Middle East,” she said. “And a big part of what it’s going to affect, how it settles, is how these people are returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought back together and whether they can live together and what their communities look like.”
She added, “It’s in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.”
Jolie met with the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi migration officials, says the American Embassy, the Associated Press reports.
AP Television News also showed her socializing with American troops over lunch at a dining facility in the high-security Green Zone, where the embassy and Iraqi government offices in central Baghdad are located. In the afternoon, she visited internally displaced people.
“Angelina is trying to urge everyone to develop a plan to address getting these people home,” Neilson adds.
Jolie will return to the U.S. Thursday night.
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Film Clips: Of Heath Ledger and the Autopsy Report
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, Columns, Film Clips
Jeff Wells has stirred up a sh*tstorm of controversy over on Hollywood Elsewhere with a post about the Heath Ledger autopsy report. In a post bluntly titled, "Heath did it to himself," Wells says, in part:New York's medical examiner report was predictably dry and succinct and non-judgmental, but the implication is that Heath Ledger didn't care to calculate or remember which prescription drugs he'd taken, much less assess their combined effect upon his body. You can say "accident" over and over but the blunt answer is that Heath did it to himself. Like I wrote the day he died. A tree didn't fall on him. Actions have consequences.
The post has generated the predictable array of comments, from the sympathetic to the angry to the truly asinine. Which all goes to show, if nothing else, the impact the death of a celebrity can have on people who never even knew him. Of course, with the release of the autopsy report today, no matter which way it came down, people were going to make judgments and jump to conclusions they shouldn't be jumping to. It's easy to judge Ledger, even if his death by overdose was accidental, because he should have known better, right? It's easy to look at what we (think we) know of his life and say, hell, the guy had everything going for him, what the f*ck? That's what most everyone was saying around Park City on the afternoon of January 22, as we all got out of press screenings to the news of his death. Shock. Profound sadness. Disbelief. Vehement indignation and anger, even.
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