The bargain bins of your local record store (assuming you still have one!) are littered with vanity albums released by movie stars who decided what they'd really rather be is a rock star. Fortunately, there are some actors who get that impulse out the way the rest of us do: through karaoke. In honor of a newly unearthed clip of Jude Law singing his heart out, here are six stars who are fiends for karaoke:
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As my estimable colleague Kyle Buchanan reported yesterday, producers of the new Wicked movie musical have zeroed in on four possible directors for the film: Star Trek's J.J. Abrams, Walk the Line's James Mangold, Glee's Ryan Murphy and Chicago's Rob Marshall. But fortunately, my sister is dating a guy who is cousins with a girl who went to camp with this one dude who works in Universal's mailroom, and was able to get me each director's pitch for their vision of Wicked. Click ahead to experience the wonder.
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Movieline knows that summer 2010 isn't a wellspring of brilliant cinema, and you and your airbent tolerance likely agree. However, there's potential for great movies right in front of us in the form of recent music videos that feature threads of narrative begging for full-length adaptation. Join us as we take five du jour pop smashes and pitch 90-minute versions that could thrill us at the multiplex.
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They say the heat wave that crushed much of the East Coast all week has abated, but 10 out of 10 respondents to a Movieline poll of melting men on the street agree: 90 degrees with 100 percent humidity still sucks. But at least we're all in this together -- and with the movies, which are rich with tales of city folks sweating out the worst seasonal crap summer has to offer. And I don't mean The Last Airbender. Read on and recount nine of the best.
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Today marks the midpoint of 2010 -- and thus the midpoint of our year in movies and TV. Join Movieline in both taking stock and looking ahead.
Good news for those of you who are still unsatisfied with 2010's television programming: the second half of the year promises something for everyone. Whether you like overweight cops, sexy singles looking for love, mini-horses, borderline racist humor or uplifting stories about cancer sufferers, consider yourself covered. Movieline helps match you up with your perfect small screen mate after the jump.
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Today marks the midpoint of 2010 -- and thus the midpoint of our year in movies and TV. Join Movieline in both taking stock and looking ahead.
If there was one constant that unified the first six months of 2010, it was that everyone loved Betty White. Seriously -- saying something mean about America's Grandma this year was akin to stealing candy from a baby while kicking a puppy. You just didn't go there. But now that we're on the other side of 2010, White has probably peaked -- unless someone starts a Facebook campaign to get her become an astronaut or something. So which former icon will return to glory in the next six months? Movieline speculates ahead.
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Today and tomorrow mark the midpoint of 2010 -- and thus the midpoint of our year in movies and TV. Join Movieline in both taking stock and looking ahead.
Movieline has already celebrated the midpoint of 2010 by forecasting the dates that will shape the rest of the year, but what about the possible late night bookings that could go down in television history as format game-changers? Here are the guests we hope to see shaking up the after hours landscape (already shaken up itself after this year's late night wars) over the next six months.
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That's what 17,000 voters at American Cinematographer -- the house journal of the American Society of Cinematographers -- have expressed in a new poll, the results of which were slipped over Movieline's transom this morning. The dates considered are actually 1998-2008, which I guess means Avatar will have to wait for its peer-anointed glory. But back to the original question: Amélie? Really? Read on for the rest of the Top 10, a bucketful of runners-up, and to contribute your own choice.
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And you thought Google Street View was only good for stalking exes and getting mental images of the places you'll soon be lost in while following Google Map directions. Case in point: Horse-Boy, the mysterious figure who popped up on a Google street view of a neighborhood in Aberdeen, Scotland. The boy -- or girl, dum, dum, dum -- is seen wearing black pants, a purple long-sleeve shirt...and a horse mask. Because, of course that's appropriate attire for a street corner in broad daylight. The Internet is awash in conspiracies and false identifications, but Movieline only cares about one thing: Turning this crazy meme into a movie! After the jump, five possible treatments. You're welcome, Hollywood.
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It seems like just yesterday that freckled face young lass bounded into our hearts, fresh from the Disney dream machine. Yes, with hair as red as Kool-Aid and a mischievous twinkle in her bright eyes, Lindsay Lohan made family movies remakes like The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday shimmer like they were brand new. The smash success of Mean Girls seem to portend the rise of an assured young comic actress who would transition smoothly into an adult acting career. But then...? Well, to quote the sage Rick James, cocaine is a helluva drug.
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After Landon Donovan's triumphant last-minute goal last Wednesday, it seems like Soccer Fever has hit America. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a low-grade fever, maybe running a toasty 99.7, rather than the 106 degree scorcher that soccer brings out virtually everywhere else in the world. It's just a sad fact of our country -- some may certainly love it, but by and large, the U.S. just isn't that into The World Cup. But don't feel bad, soccer! Here are five other things that are way more popular outside America.
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The Real World comes back next week with its Back to New Orleans season, and with each passing year, it's impossible not to pine for the series's best days. Last year's Washington D.C. trip marked a step in the right direction, but the prime seasons of Real World are so much less contrived and self-aware -- it's impossible to shake them from memory. Here we revisit the show's ten greatest stars, the ten castmates who were smart enough, cool enough, or downright problematic enough to make the kind of reality TV you might be proud to have watched.
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When I watched Toy Story 3 last week, I couldn't shake the feeling I'd seen it all before -- and it wasn't just the similarities to Toy Story 1 and 2 that were ringing a bell. Then it hit me: Toy Story 3 is just like A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg's underrated 2001 mess-terpiece. One is critically revered and destined to become one of the highest-grossing films ever, and one... wasn't. Still, they've got an awful lot in common. Spoilers ahead.
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Does the thought of sitting through The Avengers -- with its jumble of superheroes both old (Iron Man) and new (Hawkeye) -- make you recoil in disgust? Good news: You're not alone. While superhero fatigue might not be an American Medical Association recognized disease, it sure feels legitimate. And perhaps Marvel has read that writing on the wall -- or maybe they're hoping the obvious schadenfreude they experienced this weekend over the DC Comics bomb Jonah Hex doesn't come back and bite them in the ass. Either way: Rumors are swirling that -- like PIxar -- the comic book studio will start producing short films to run in front of their tentpole releases as a way to tell stories with the characters who aren't ready to make A-squad. Good idea! But which 5 Marvel heroes would benefit from this most? Embrace your inner Comic Book Guy and click ahead to find out.
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Up until now, summer 2010 seemed like a vast wasteland of disappointment. Shrieking harridans and chubby, middle-aged marksmen marred the multiplex week after disappointing week. But like an oasis in a desert of suck came Toy Story 3. And it was brilliant and funny and exciting. But it was also possibly one of the tear-jerkingiest movies to come out of Pixar yet. Click through to see what scenes caused the most waterworks, but, of course, beware of spoilers.
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