Gulliver's Travels co-stars Jack Black and Jason Segel have emerged from their respective burrows today to confirm that yes, it is indeed holiday season. As such, say hello to their duet of "Little Drummer Boy" (now available on iTunes)! In case you don't want to pay for what Black calls a "tasty Classic Jam," click ahead to watch their cartoon music video, and compare it to David Bowie and Bing Crosby's legendary piano-side duet.
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Don't expect to see Angelina Jolie on Chelsea Lately to promote her Bosnia rape-romance next year. The E! hostess blasted Jolie during a stand-up performance this weekend, proving once and for all that she is totally on Team Aniston and Team C-bomb.
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The cast of Glee has performed live for the most influential humans in the world like Oprah and the president, so it made sense that Fox flew their singing cash cows to the U.K. to perform "Don't Stop Believin'" for Dannii Minogue during The X Factor's live semi-finals results show. Well, not really, but those Glee kids had a Christmas album to promote. So watch, dear Gleeks, as Cory Monteith does not even try to convincingly lip sync to back-up vocals, and Simon Cowell does not even try to look pleased when Amber Riley belts the highest Journey notes in his face. But hey, at least Sue Sylvester was there...via tape.
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Remember that great feeling after watching Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl for the first time? It was just an eminently enjoyable, breezy action movie with a gonzo performance by Johnny Depp that was unlike any other pirate we'd seen before. And then the sequels came along, and any joy and inventiveness disappeared under the crushing weight of a convoluted storyline and performance-obscuring CGI. But behind the scenes footage from the new Pirates seem to promise a return the zany swashbuckling fun of the first flick,
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I've been dreading (and sort of anticipating) this moment for fortnights, but here we are: The first promos for American Idol's 10th season with Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez are out. How sincere is Steven's glance? How earnest are Jennifer's head nods? How frightening is Randy's new facial hair? Join us for the scares.
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In all sincerity, I am excited about James Franco co-hosting the Oscars with Anne Hathaway. I like him, I like her, and surely we can all agree is that the show will either rock in completely fresh, unprecedented ways, or it will explode in a spectacular, Chernobyl-esque ball of radioactive flame and debris, polluting its Hollywood environs for decades to come. Regardless, we're going to have ourselves a memory! That said, I'm not sure on which scenario I'd bet after seeing Franco's bit in the awards-season actor's roundtable after the jump. Help?
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"I'm nervous, I'm excited." Those were the words of actor -- and Movieline favorite -- Justin Long as he co-hosted the boozy, unhinged and Norma Desmond-inspired fourth hour of Today earlier this morning. And why shouldn't he have been nervous? After all, he was placed opposite the boozy, unhinged and Norma Desmond-inspired Kathie Lee Gifford and forced to talk about nudity, bad movies and "drunken Hoda in a thong."
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Of all the Harry Potter kid stars, Rupert Grint might be my favorite. After all, this is a guy who bought an ice cream truck when he got his driver's license...just because he always wanted to have an ice cream truck. With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that this video of Grint and some of his London club kid friends staggering through the street looking for "beigels" (to paraphrase Michael Bluth, we just call it a bagel) is probably the best thing I've seen all week. Look at Ron Weasley all grown up and wearing rouge! Click ahead to watch the magic. (Nyuck, nyuck.)
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Just as you can believe Michael Bay when he says he hasn't gone over-budget on Transformers 3, you can bet the megadirector was counting every recession-era cent for his customary Victoria's Secret holiday commercial, too. The new ad features some of the brand's most hallowed models prancing around some the very Chicago locations Bay blew to hell this summer, with the occasional horse and/or opera house tossed in for variety. Read on for the mildly NSFW spot (and the making-of video, with images of the man at work).
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If you were one of the screaming audience members turned away from James Franco's taping of Inside the Actor's Studio last week, you're in luck: Bravo has released a few clips from his in-depth conversation with James Lipton. (Don't scream too loud, your cubicle mates might get startled.) Ahead, watch as the similarly mustachioed duo discuss how Franco maneuvered the role of his quirky Pineapple Express drug dealer, and how Danny Boyle's preconception about him -- from that same film -- almost kept him from his Oscar-bound role in 127 Hours.
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While Conan O'Brien's Tuesday evening monologue might have left something to be desired, his parody for Julie Taymor's Spider-Man musical was just about spot on. Well, other than that it didn't include any five-minute delays, catcalls from the audience or narrative confusion. Otherwise, winner! Click ahead to watch, and let's hope that Turn Off the Dark can at least make as much sense as this when it opens next year.
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Best Use of Crazy Eyes in a Motion Picture is not yet at category at the Academy Awards -- it isn't even recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press -- but based on Natalie Portman's work in this new clip from Black Swan, maybe it should be. Because, damn, she looks crazy! This bit of Black Swan marketing comes from the final act of Darren Aronofsky's film, but don't worry: There are no spoilers. Unless the fact that Portman's ballerina performs Swan Lake in the film is a spoiler. Click ahead to watch, but be forewarned: Natalie will haunt your dreams.
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Trick question! They're all Oscar clips -- one big epic montage of Berry getting her split-personality freak on with this accent and that wig, this meltdown and that comedown, this transgression and that redemption... Take your pick. All that's missing is Kirk Lazarus supplying the requisite ham in the Stellan Skarsgård role, and we're in real awards-season business.
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There have already been a number of phemenomenal tributes to the late Leslie Nielsen, but now Airplane and Naked Gun co-writer/director David Zucker has penned one and it's both heartwarming and hilarious. There is one brief, eyebrow-raising moment where Zucker writes: "Offscreen, he wasn't so much of a joke or storyteller..." Fortunately, he immediately qualifies this statement by saying that Nielsen preferred practical jokes and that "the stories are legion about the fart machine..." Too perfect. Let's go to the videos.
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Are you ready, America? Coming in the fall of 2011, former American Idol judge (and V-neck aficionado) Simon Cowell will return to televisions with The X Factor. The British import is already one of the most hyped events on the Fox calendar next year -- right up there with the Glee Super Bowl episode and, well, the Super Bowl -- and so it goes to reason that the network would want to start plugging it as soon as possible. As such, say hello to the 10 quickest, most nondescript seconds in the history of television promotion.
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