· Hey, it's the first official still from Sex and the City 2! What is that car wearing, am I right?
· Danny DeVito spoke to Vanity Fair about his It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia nude scene: "When somebody says to you, 'Your character comes out of a couch naked,' you don't know what it's going to be like until the flounder is moving across the naugahyde."
· Mr. Burns from The Simpsons very nearly triumphed in the NYC Mayoral race (well, kinda). I mean, after the whole gay marriage imbroglio in the state, could he really have done any worse?
· McG is still threatening to make two more Terminator movies.
· Hey Barbara Walters, why are you making Adam Lambert pre-tape his View performance? "Because people seem to be afraid of what he'll do." Gotcha.
"Somebody wrote something on the internet and a lot of nonsense happened," Peter Jackson told somebody else on the Internet over the weekend, attempting to suffocate pesky (and apparently inaccurate) rumors that The Hobbit's pushed-back shooting schedule will affect its 2011 release date. "We were due to deliver the scripts and be shooting sometime around April and now, I think I said in an interview, we were shooting in June. And somehow people are now saying the film is delayed." So, for future reference: Two-month hold-up = on schedule. Got it. [Collider via Total Film]
In one of their most searing outbursts since Neill Blomkamp went with CGI prawns in District 9, the Creative Workers Union of South Africa expressed displeasure today over the casting of Jennifer Hudson as controversial former first lady Winnie Mandela. According to the group's leaders, the Oscar-winner's enlistment in Winne is merely the latest in a damaging trend of outsourcing some of the nation's best work to foreigners.
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· The governor of Veracruz, Mexico revealed over the weekend that Mel Gibson is planning to shoot a movie next month at the Ignacio Allende Prison there -- not far from where Gibson made Apocalypto several years ago and contributed philanthropic efforts last winter. He last visited the prison in 2008, and Gov. Fidel Herrera said a portion of the facility will be vacated "because a grand production will be filmed there with our friend, the actor and producer Mel Gibson." No additional details -- title, story line, or where the hell you move half a Mexican prison's worth of inmates to make room for Mel Gibson -- were available as of this writing. [THR]
Moneyball may finally have its director, Jack Black gets cryptozoological, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
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Years from now, when cultural historians look back at some of human civilization's milestones of persistence, expect to find The Blind Side's week-three usurping of New Moon's box-office title among those hallowed ranks. The inspiring (if insipid) Sandra Bullock film handily knocked off its ab-tacular competition on a weak frame for movies as a whole, proving once and for all that with a little big-hearted moralizing and a whole lot of Clairol Nice 'N Easy Natural Medium Champagne Blonde hair color, all things are possible. Find out just how possible after the jump.
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The Blind Side looks like it will finally make an end-run around New Moon this weekend, decisively taking the first place slot from the vampire drama in yesterday's box office. Meanwhile, Brothers landed in the number-three spot with more than some trackers were expecting (though still not a magnificent haul) while Everybody's Fine made its title seem like the state of highest denial. Full figures after the jump:
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This week at Movieline, we looked toward both the past and future. As nominations are awarded to the films of the past year, what can we glean about next year from the Sundance Film Festival's announcements? Also, what is going on with the makeup-clad controversy magnet Adam Lambert? Let's take a look back:
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It doesn't matter if you commented here for the first time 14 years ago. Movieline, like the Grammy committee, is validating the efforts of youngsters and oldsters alike with the most flexible award of them all: the Grammy for Best New Artist. Have I not met you before? You're new to me! Just like the Silversun Pickups, the Dixie Chicks, or the Blues Brothers, really. So who leaves the Movieline dais with a trophy?
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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is changing its stance on Adam Lambert's ABC ban, saying that although the network features lotsa gay people, they acted shady this time. "We appreciate ABC's commitment to gay and transgender inclusion in other programming," said Jarrett Barrios, President of the GLAAS. "...We do not support ABC cancelling Adam Lambert's past and future performances. We urge the community to reach out to ABC and express their concerns that Adam Lambert is being subjected to a double standard." Dropping the ball: Not just a Dick Clark event anymore. [GLAAD]
Maybe director Paul Greengrass isn't done with the Bourne franchise after all, says Matt Damon to EW. "Paul's got to go to work, you know? He's ready to do another job, and it wasn't the right job now. I get it. I wouldn't do it without him but I don't feel like he's done with it totally. I think he'd change his mind if a good script came along." It is then that EW picks the inopportune time to remind us that current Bourne screenwriter Josh Zetumer did a polish of the momentum-deflating Bond sequel Quantum of Solace. [EW]
From the moment it was first announced that Leona Lewis would be undertaking the all-important duties of singing the exit music to James Cameron's first film since Titanic, comparisons between her Avatar love theme and Celine Dion's seminal "My Heart Will Go On" were inevitable. Now that we've finally heard the song, entitled "I See You," we can finally perform an educated analysis.
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· Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried make out in the rain in this new still from Dear John -- mandatory, since it's based on a novel by "wet people making out" author Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook). Audrina, get excited!
· What does Kara DioGuardi think of the Adam Lambert cancellation kerfuffle? "We're living in a pretty bad economic time, so they have to do what they have to do to keep their advertisers," DioGuardi told E! "Networks are doing what they think their viewers want and don't want, so it's just budgetary."
· Meanwhile, Cynthia Nixon isn't happy that New York state scuttled gay marriage. "Wednesday's No vote on same sex marriage was supremely disappointing on a personal as well as a political level," the actress wrote on HuffPo. "Guess Christine and I can kiss that Waldorf Astoria wedding... Brooklyn Botanical Gardens wedding... Montauk Beach wedding -- you fill in the blank -- goodbye."
· Brangelina. Nude. (In sculpture.)
· Nine's Marion Cotillard interviewed Penelope Cruz by starting off with the question "Imagine that you meet some extraterrestrials. How would you describe humankind to them?" I asked Abigail Breslin that once. Didn't go so well.
At least that's what creator Joss Whedon said, in a new interview with Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune. According to Whedon, Fox "got twitchy" about the idea of showing Dollhouse's main character Echo (Eliza Dushku) in sexually compromising situations "about five minutes after they bought" the series. Whedon continued, "The idea of sexuality was a big part of the show when it started and when that fell out, when the show turned into a thriller every week, it took something out of it that was kind of basic to what we were trying to do." [The Watcher]
Bravo's already-better-than-Project Runway knockoff Launch My Line brought in a measly 800,000 viewers last night, which is a phenomenal fall from its Top Chef lead-in. Not acceptable. How can we change this? It's not like Tim Gunn has a hip pheasant-hunting show on a competing network right now, so let's rally around Launch My Line. Twin hosts Dean and Dan Caten are just as terrifying as Nina Garcia's "I'll use a rolling pin on you, Suede" wince, trust me. I'll be watching (and reviewing), anyway. [EW]
The reason Twilight was such a big box office hit -- and its sequel, New Moon, was even bigger -- is that the female audience finally decided to flex some of that powerhouse moviegoing muscle that had been in danger of atrophying since the phenomenon that was Titanic. Still, I don't expect that this often-unappreciated demographic is done with 2009 yet. While it'd be crazy to expect the Meryl Streep comedy It's Complicated to post anywhere near New Moon numbers, I'm starting to get the feeling women are about to make it a much bigger hit that some have foreseen. The rationale is simple: this movie is basically Twilight for older women! Here are four reasons why:
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