Pamela Anderson is facing a new lawsuit - from her own legal team. The former Baywatch bombshell is being sued by law firm Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro over an unpaid bill. T...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Pamela Anderson Sued By Former Lawyers
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Carpetbagger: 'Rango,' Oscar Nominee From Industrial Light, Began in Pencil
"Rango," Industrial Light & Magic's first film nominated for an animation Oscar, began with pencil sketches. Its voices were recorded together on a soundstage, not in booths.
Sophia Bush Talks Music & Activism At Belvedere (RED) Bash (Video)
Mary J. Blige kicked off Grammy weekend last Thursday with a performance at the Belvedere(RED) bash—one of the most coveted parties in Hollywood. Heather Graham, Sophia Bush, Paris Hilton, Chelsea ...
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CBS' 'Elementary' Finds Its Sherlock Holmes in 'Dexter' Villain
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Anthony Lapaglia Heading Back To TV - As A Fashion Designer
Former Without A Trace star Anthony LaPaglia is heading back to TV screens - as a fashion designer. The one-time Aussie soccer star, who portrayed gruff detective Jack Malone on the hit TV show fo...
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Shakira Antagonizes Sea Lion, Almost Gets Eaten
Shakira had a scary run-in with a big, bad sea lion. See how she escaped -- and her explanation for bothering the poor creature in the first place.
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Hilary Duff's Husband Mike Comrie Retires From NHL
New Featurette Introduces and Explains 'John Carter's' Cultural Influences
One of the major obstacles Disney is currently facing with their massive blockbuster John Carter is explaining how and why this movie, which looks so similar to so many others, was made at all. It's based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, first published in 1917, that has become so engrained in the popular conscious it has almost lost its identity. Burroughs' vision was so ahead of its time and influenced so many things that came after, those properties have long since taken ownership. But the fact of the matter is, without John Carter, there's no Star Wars, no Avatar, no Blade Runner, almost no sci-fi in general.
Aiming to fix some of that, Disney has released a 90-second featurette reintroducing the world to John Carter. They've also thrown in a bunch of new footage to sweeten the pot. But not too much. The Andrew Stanton-directed film starring Taylor Kitsch, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong and others will be released March 9. Check it out after the jump.
Thanks to First Showing for the heads up on this featurette and the UK Disney YouTube for the video.
While the first teaser trailer for John Carter left many underwhelmed, each subsequent trailer, commercial and snippet of footage has gotten bigger and better. That's because Stanton was still working on the movie when the first footage hit. It's done now, though, and the early buzz is it lives up to the incredible expectations of a project that costs hundreds of millions of dollars and took almost two times as long as a traditional film to complete. Case in point, Peter was on the set of the film back in 2010 and that was already well in to production.
Because of Andrew Stanton, I have very high hopes for John Carter. And without giving away too much, you'll be getting much more exclusive info on the film in the coming weeks.
What do you think of this featurette? Do you think audiences care about John Carter's cultural context?
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- 'John Carter' Trailer – 'Wall-E' Director Andrew Stanton Goes Back to Outer Space, This Time with Tim Riggins
- 'John Carter' Concept Art Revealed, Andrew Stanton Talks, Trailer on Harry Potter?
- 'John Carter' Set Interviews: Andrew Stanton, Taylor Kitsch, Willem DaFoe, Lynn Collins and Thomas Hayden Church
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sequel Bits: 'The Muppets,' 'Power of the Dark Crystal,' and 'Star Trek 2รข€²
The sequel news keeps coming, and this is almost a specialty update on a couple of upcoming 'next chapters.' Below it's all Muppets and Star Trek as we run down the possibility of sequels to The Muppets and The Dark Crystal, and look at the licensing plans Paramount has for the now-shooting sequel to Star Trek.
Let's start off with a reputable report that The Muppets will get a sequel. Bleeding Cool points out that Kermit himself said that a sequel is official while appearing on a UK talk show. Trouble is, just like any actor, Kermit might not be the go-to for info on official sequel decisions. And he's mostly joking anyway. Asked by host Phillip Schofield about a sequel or additional TV show, there was this exchange:
Kermit: We have been [talking about it], yes, yes. I think that if this movie does as well as we'd like, if people want to see us, sure, we'll probably do more movies… it's nothing official… but there's all this hush-hush Hollywood talk.
Piggy: Then make it official.
Kermit: Okay, it's official.
Naturally there have been some actual conversations about a sequel for The Muppets (THR has a little quite from the film's producers David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman about the very early talks) but we're a ways off from actually getting word that the gang will be back together for another screen adventure.
And then there is that other little Jim Henson fan favorite film, The Dark Crystal. There has been a good bit of talk over the years, especially in the past few turns of the calendar, about going back to the world inhabited by Gelflings and Skeksis.
In 2005 or so The Power of the Dark Crystal was announced, and in 2010 the Henson Company said that the Spierig Brothers (Daybreakers) would direct the film, with production likely taking place in Australia. Now Moviehole has asked producers what's up with development on the sequel, and the response was pretty simple: the site was told the film "may switch hands" and that a "little more time will be spent on getting it right." Another source the site talked to said the Spierig Brothers were off the project as of last year.
Likely put the uncertainty down to indecision over whether the property is worth further development, from a financial standpoint.
Now a couple of licensing notes for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek sequel. One is that Hasbro will be helping Paramount make a boatload of cash on the film, as the company has picked up the Trek license and will make "a variety of products" based on Star Trek. One of them will be the Lego-like 'KRE-O" toys; those are vaguely appropriate in that the title of the toy line sounds like something that could be a Trek alien species. They're pictured below. [Collider]
And then Namco will be the company to release a Trek game early next year, paving the way for the sequel release. The game has been in development for some time, so this isn't a quickie offering. Does the Namco license mean that the next incarnation of SoulCalibur will feature Trek characters in the same way that SoulCalibur IV had Star Wars fighters? Let's hope not… [THR]
Finally, Chris Pine had a few things to say about Trek 2 villain and the current reigning Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch. He told MTV,
Benedict has got this intensity about him, and he's obviously extremely intelligent and articulate. His vocal quality is something else. He obviously is, unlike many of us, like, an actually trained actor. He actually studied for it.
That training is apparent to anyone who's seen the BBC Sherlock, and is likely a good part of what helped him land a gig voicing (and playing) Smaug the dragon for Peter Jackson's Hobbit films. The real question, though, is: when the hell will Andrew Scott, aka the show's Moriarty, start being cast left and right? The answer is probably "just after the second season is broadcast in the States," which happens in a couple months.
- 'Star Trek 2′: Shooting Begins in LA, Plus: Damon Lindelof, Bruce Greenwood, and Benedict Cumberbatch Talk
- Benedict Cumberbatch Nabs a Lead Role in the 'Star Trek' Sequel
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
First 'Breaking Dawn II' Trailer to Be Attached to 'Hunger Games' Screenings
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