It's one of the weirdest moments in a movie full of them: Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried's lingering, very close-up lesbian kiss in Jennifer's Body. Debate its merits or lack thereof all you want (I think it makes sense), but it's there for all time. And to hear the co-stars tell it at today's Toronto Film Festival press conference for the film, that's fine by them. In video after the jump, Fox and Seyfried share their thoughts on how and why they found their inner lesbians for Jennifer's sake.
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Ed Westwick, the man behind Chuck Bass' happenin' brood on Gossip Girl, appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last tonight to prove that he and his role are two separate identities. The biggest aid in his thesis was a game staged by Fallon, where the actor spun a wheel of scenarios and exhibited how Chuck Bass would react to each selection. I didn't see Ridiculous Photo Shoot on the wheel, but that could be an actual storyline. Clip after the jump.
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As we learned from Kathy Griffin this week, there is no family secret too dark and no eating disorder too sacred to exploit in the name of selling a few extra copies of your memoir. Still, now that she's out of her own dirty secrets to peddle shamelessly, Griffin's been forced to find herself a Kate Gosselin wig, eight Asian children, and George Takei to create an attention-drumming Jon & Kate Plus 8 parody called Kate is Enough: The Kate Gosselin Story.
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OK, so, help me out on this one. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. But when a gay man strips down to his underwear and crashes George Clooney's press conference at the Venice Film Festival to declare his undying love for the actor, that's...what, exactly?
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The 2009 Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon brought in $5 million less than 2008's festivities, but one priceless artifact was salvaged: the talent of Charo. With her cover performance of Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music," Charo spent Labor Day proving the following: 1) She is alive; 2) Her performance style still combines the agility of Shakira with the delirium of Count Chocula; and 3) She can terrify Jerry Lewis in a way not seen since Sandra Bernhard's dinner scene in The King of Comedy. Clip after the jump.
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Well, this is interesting: In preparation for the first volume of Brett Ratner's Shooter Series -- a new DVD collection gathering music videos, short films, commercials and other early-career odds and ends of directors including himself, the Hughes Brothers, F. Gary Gray and others -- the filmmaker unearthed some '90s era footage of Mickey Rourke explaining his transition from Hollywood to the boxing ring. The resulting short doc, Meet Mickey Rourke, was edited and produced by none other than nonfiction pioneer Albert Maysles; it hits shelves a week from today along with some of Ratner's other work from his pre-Hollywood days.
Movieline caught up with Ratner last week to get the scoop behind his decades-old acquaintance with Rourke and how he came to film the future Oscar-nominee's de facto farewell to Hollywood. That story -- and an excerpt from the film -- follow the jump.
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Just how painstaking was production on The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic about a vulpine family man facing a minor midlife crisis? Perhaps it would be easier to show, not tell, and this official featurette does just that. Narrated by Jason Schwartzman, who voices young Fox family member Ash, the mini-doc features Anderson holding court over his miniature sets with the same giddy and particular authority he displayed marching through the grounds of an English manor house in that amazing American Express ad.
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You know, Marvel wasn't always such a coveted, multi-billion-dollar Hollywood property. It wasn't so long ago that getting a live-action Fantastic Four adaptation -- let alone a whole franchise reboot -- made by a studio was like pulling teeth, and the pre-Fox rights-holders had to resort to the most desperate of measures to ensure their opportunity did not go to waste. After the jump, relive the D-grade agony and ecstasy of the as-yet-unreleased 1994 adaptation spearheaded by schlockmeister Roger Corman, along with a bit of historical background from Movieline's resident Cold Case expert Michael Adams.
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There is a circle of hell in which a Biblical giant throws sinners into a fiery pit, sacrifices them to a six-winged beast and then straps their charred remains down to await Satan Himself, who arrives carrying the latest Gossip Girl bonus features DVD. He silently inserts the disc into a Craigslist-purchased TV/DVD combo player and walks out as the said sinner is subjected to an eternity of Leighton Meester breaking into baby voices each time she flubs a line. Fortunately for the forever-damned, Gossip Girl recently released ten minutes of season two bloopers, providing fresh Blake Lively giggles, cellphone ring-interrupted shots and Pilates-related Freudian slips to echo against the caves of hell until the end of time.
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Vogue editor Anna Wintour debuted her talk show personality last night on The Late Show With David Letterman. After shuffling onstage in her trademark sunglasses to Paul Shaffer's jazzy rendition of Dance to the Music, Wintour whipped off the shades, planted herself next to Dave and then...sat stiffly through a pleasantly restrained back and forth with the Late Show host.
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What fragrance does the Dark Sith Lord like to shpritz beneath his helmet after a long day of choking recalcitrant Imperial captains? Why, Lacoste Challenge, of course! Recalling his teleporting Jumper character, watch now as Hayden Christensen springs through the air to snatch the bottle bearing the familiar alligator logo, then lands almost instantaneously in a kiddie pool filled with hundred-dollar bills atop the Sphinx's head.
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It's always interesting to learn what celebrities' proposed platforms would be were they to run for public office. Brad Pitt recently told the Today Show that his mayoral campaign in New Orleans would run "on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform." Alec Baldwin, who's both teased and denied a Senate run, would nevertheless work tirelessly to push through his divorced dads' rights initiatives. And now we have Britney Spears on last night's Late Show with David Letterman, delivering ten campaign promises for her inevitable go at the White House.
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As you've been told repeatedly in the run-up to its release, if you care about movies, or kick-ass 3-D experiences, or the future of mankind in general, then you care about James Cameron's bold, interstellar-Smurfs-on-steroids vision more commonly known as Avatar. And if they've already succeeded in getting you to drink the blue Kool-Aid, you've undoubtedly had one eye trained on Apple's movie site, where a countdown clock is ticking away the minutes until Avatar's trailer goes live. Can't wait that long? You don't need to! The Official Unofficial Trailer has already hit the web, and it's a showstopper! Strap yourself in for an adventure, the likes of which you have never seen!
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For a director who's obsessed with packing his movies full of subplots, tangents, and diversions, it seems appropriate that the side stories that have sprung up during Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds press tour are at least as entertaining as the movie itself. First, there was the Purple Dildo of Set-Napping Shame, and now Tarantino's topped even that with a truly amazing list of his twenty favorite movies of the last seventeen years. The kids-killing-kids classic Battle Royale was number-one on the list, but it's the number-two film Tarantino revealed that's the real shocker.
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Anything remotely noteworthy about the Teen Choice Awards instantly fell to the wayside the moment Kathy Griffin stampeded the red carpet with Levi Johnston, star Left Wing of the Wasilla Mighty Platypuses and irrefutably fertile thorn in Sarah Palin's side, on her arm.
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