· The LAT has premiered a new still from The Twilight Saga: New Moon, just in time to whip those Comic-Con-usurping ladyparts-havers into a frenzy. Add all the drunk cockatoos you want, Favreau, but down in San Diego, nothing's gonna beat the presence of Taylor Lautner with a flattering haircut. Dreamy, full-sized pic after the jump:
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Cast interviews are nice and all, but when you really want to make an impression about Eyes Wide Shut's 10th anniversary, let's face it: It takes an orgy. A British estate owner learned that the hard way this week when 350 guests descended on his property for a masked ball modeled after the scandalous centerpiece of Stanley Kubrick's film. Maybe the party promoter's £65 ticket price and Web site warning "COUPLES & FEMALES ONLY! No Single men!" should have given away what would happen next, but for the story's sake, I'm quite happy it didn't. Details after the jump.
Mischa Barton has been placed under an involuntary psychiatric hold by the LAPD and has been transferred to Cedars-Sinai, reports Access Hollywood. The actress, recently the object of increased tabloid scrutiny, is a regular on the CW's upcoming The Beautiful Life and has indie film Homecoming premiering this weekend in two cities. [Access Hollywood]
Including its record-breaking midnight screenings early Wednesday, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince earned a monumental $58.4 million on its first day in U.S. theaters. Not so monumental that Michael Bay will be firing off any angry letters about a threat to Transformers 2's own best-ever opening day, but still. Forecasters predict a $150-million-plus take by the end of business on Sunday; call your shots in the comments, and check back with Moveline Attractions tomorrow morning for our own peerless weekend projections. [Variety]
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a May 25 bombing outside a upper-Manhattan Starbucks, charging 17-year-old Kyle Shaw with first-degree arson and first-degree criminal possession of a weapon. His inspiration: Fight Club, a movie with whose anti-corporate politics Shaw was reportedly obsessed. High-five, Hollywood!
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· Cameras caught this shot of Robert Downey Jr. in a pre-production Audi R8 with STARK11 plates. Watch out for the drunk cockatoo in your rear-view mirror, Tony! [via LeftLaneNews.com]
· Tom Cruise thrilled fellow concertgoers at Beyoncé's Staples Center show by doing the "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" dance from his seats, but he later composed himself as he earnestly mouthed along the lyrics to "If I Were a Boy."
· Jamie Waylett, who's played Hogwarts school bully Vincent Crabbe in every Harry Potter film, was busted in London after police found a large amount of weed in his car (which he'd sworn he'd wrapped in The Ziploc Baggie of Invisibility before he left the house).
· "I Look Like Michael on Good Times. I would Like to meet some White Asian and Latina Ladies to help me with Things." [via Dangerous Minds]
· Minnie Driver's Passion: Seal Kebabs!
We continue our celebration of the 10th anniversary of Eyes Wide Shut with these recollections from another cast member: Leelee Sobieski was only 13 when Stanley Kubrick cast her as the daughter of creepy costume shop owner Mr. Milich, who offers up her sexual services to Tom Cruise's Dr. Harford in a disturbing sequence that bore all the hallmarks of the Kubrick rubric. At the Public Enemies premiere, we asked Sobieski to reminisce about the experience. Battling to be heard over the screams of fans greeting the arrival of Johnny Depp, the actress recalled the director as being the most "open I've ever worked with ... even as a little kid, I could feel it."
The video is after the jump.
EW has billionaire gadabout Tony Stark on the cover of their Comic-Con preview, flanked by new frienemies Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and Kawasaki/human hybrid Whiplash, otherwise known in the discarded-Chihuahua-collecting community as Mickey Rourke. The occasion, of course, is the sequel to last summer's breakout hit Iron Man, rocketing back to screens in early May of 2010. (Bide your time over the next ten months by following director and tireless Tournament of Champions campaigner Jon Favreau's tweeted production updates.)
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With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poised to challenge myriad opening weekend records after its huge, $20-million-plus midnight haul, we at Movieline are taking a moment to reflect on the trio of young actors who have played such a crucial role in the film's -- and the franchise's -- astounding success. But as much as we'd like to simply enjoy their talent in this moment of potentially historic box office achievement, we can't help but let our imagination wander, conjuring visions of what their professional futures might hold. And so we present these brief excerpts from Movieline's "A Hogwarts Class Reunion" a feature that will be available to download on the GooKindle Chrome in 2021, to give you a sneak preview of where Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint's careers have taken them two decades after the release of the first Potter installment.
30 Rock and Mad Men led the field of Emmy nominees announced this morning in Los Angeles, pulling down 22 and 16 nominations respectively, including nods for Best Comedy and Dramatic Series. But the ensuing free for-for-all in the expanded categories offered the real news of the day -- not the least of which was Family Guy's selection as the first animated Best Comedy Series nominee since The Flintstones.
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· I don't pretend to know the politics or trajectory of Ryan Seacrest's relationship with his longtime agents at William Morris or their new partners from Endeavor. But to openly exclude them from his lucrative American Idol contract negotiations, pay zero commission and then jump to CAA (also no commission) to give the Death Star locks on himself, Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller -- thus putting AI's nuts firmly, even more permanently in CAA's loving grip? Well, that's just not very nice at all. But cheer up, Ari! Aretha Franklin just signed on! [DHD]
Kate Bosworth goes to the Dogs, DreamWorks finds money, and more Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· If there's a better reason to jump for joy who cares? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince star Freddie Stroma's previous work as a skivvies model has been unearthed. It's after the jump.
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By the time you've taken your first sips of Red Bull-sweetened coffee tomorrow morning, Hollywood will be abuzz with talk of who has or hasn't been recognized with an Emmy nomination. The results would already have been read aloud by Grey's Anatomy's Chandra Wilson and The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons at a press conference held shortly after dawn -- just in time for the news to make the morning talk show rounds, whereupon Today's Ann Curry will no doubt marvel at all the "large, big, powerful Jews" recognized by the TV Academy for their sitcom-writing achievements.
To prepare you for the triumphs and injustices to come, we've compiled this briefing of subplots and suspects to keep an eye on.
Perhaps befitting a series that's seen a hormonal jolt added to its latest installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is causing film critics to wax rhapsodic...about what a hottie Emma Watson has turned into. Sure, there were signs of this bubbling up two years ago upon the release of Order of the Phoenix, but now she's 19! With critical tumescence having reached a fevered pitch, we thought it time to take a look at three of the most notable types of Watson crushes in print (we're not even dealing with the fanboy sites, because who knows what poor, sexy Hermione comes in for there).
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It is a common lament among actors that typecasting sucks. "I want to be dramatic," cry the men, "and Hollywood only wants me to be funny!" "I want to be a homely character actress," cry the women, "yet studio executives cannot see past my breast implants and perfume ads to cast me in any other part besides the love interest!" Truly, it is a sad thing when a performer cannot flex his or her muscles by disappearing into a wide variety of roles, for it is channeling that vast diaspora of human experience that makes an actor great.
So stop getting so damn many tattoos, actors.
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