Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Exclusive Video: Neil Patrick Harris Guest Stars on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time
Adventure Time Neil Patrick Harris is fast becoming the busiest man in show business, so it's fitting that he'd be working on Labor Day. The How I Met Your Mother star - whose summer activities included hosting the Tony Awards, starring in the box office hit The Smurfs, and a guest-judging stint on So You Think You Can Dance - guest stars on next Monday's episode of the Cartoon Network whimsical series Adventure Time (Sept. 5 at 8/7c). The gig came about when show creator Pendleton Ward approached Harris via Twitter last December. Titled "Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake," the episode is, according to the network, set in "a gender-bending, parallel universe." Fionna and her cat Cake are the female versions of the show's main characters, the fearless boy Finn and his magical dog Jake. Harris plays Prince Gumball, the object of Fionna's affection. In this exclusive clip, the prince serenades his lovestruck companion. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Watch Online Transformers 3 Dark Of The Moon
Monday, August 29, 2011
Scribe Maria Maggenti To Reboot Dirty Dancing
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has set Maria Maggenti to script the Dirty Dancing remake thathas Kenny Ortega attached to direct. Ortega was the choreographer of the 1987 Emile Ardolino-helmed film about a pampered young girl who summers with her upscale family at an establishment in the Catskills and falls in love with the resident dance instructor. Because Lionsgate has fast-tracked the film and set a director, this was a job a lot of writers wanted. Maggenti got it after scripting Monte Carlo for Fox and New Regency. Since then, she scripted an adaptation of Before I Fall and is finishing up My Name Is Memory, also for Fox 2000 and New Regency. The writer’s repped by APA and Madhouse Entertainment. Lionsgate is hoping to recapture some of the financial magic of the original, a sleeper hit that for its time was one of the most profitable independent films ever seen, costing $6 million and grossing $213.95 million worldwide. It was made by Vestron, which could not get its act together and mobilize a sequel before crapping out. Lionsgate released Artisans 2004 sequel,Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, but didn’t make that film and has started from scratch and gone back to the original.Watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Online Free
Zoe Saldana to create and star in supernatural thriller Dominion
Zoe Saldana is presently trying to blow a significant hole in america box office with actioner Colombiana, but she's already arranging another project.She'll produce and star in Dominion, a mysterious supernatural thriller that's being setup at Vital. Little is famous concerning the movie, aside from the truth that Saldana will have a lady who's half-angel, half-human.Most probably it will be another kick-ass heroine to increase her impressive roster, though she seems to become taking things a bit more lightly together with her next handful of roles.First of all, she's got lately-wrapped thriller What with Bradley Cooper, by which he plays a writer who nicks another person's work. Next, she'll shoot Qq Abrams-created indie drama Infinitely Polar Bear with Mark Ruffalo.A minimum of she's keeping busy while her company directors drag their particular heels about the Avatar and Star Trek sequels.Colombiana opens within the United kingdom on 9 September 2011.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
How a 'Real Housewives' Suicide Sheds Light on Exploitation in Reality TV
"Relax! Open up and Breathe! Feel comfortable in the uncomfortable!" A bearded man stomps through a circle of nine hapless students in a run-down Manhattan studio, yelling at the top of his voice. This is Robert Galinsky, 46, a former special education teacher and public-speaking coach who has reinvented himself as principal of the New York Reality TV School and aims to transform his students into stars.our editor recommends'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Husband Russell Armstrong Slams Bravo in One of His Final Interviews'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'' Husband Commits Suicide 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'' Russell Armstrong at L.A. County Coroner's Office'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills': Bravo Family Reacts to Russell Armstrong's DeathBravo to Re-Edit Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in Wake of Russell Armstrong SuicideBravo Execs Waiting 24 Hours to Decide Fate of 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' "We're going to turn up the heat," he adds. "I want your name and your secret -- now!" PHOTOS: Inside Kardashian Inc. Galinsky has agreed to let The Hollywood Reporter visit his training studio as part of a months-long look at reality TV's expanding genre of programming based on personal problems and sicknesses. A burly demolition man swathed in furs declares he has never read a whole book. A diminutive trainer reveals she was once a professional basketball player. And then we hit pay dirt. PHOTOS: Charlie Sheen's Colorful Career "My name is Kristen Taylor," a tall, flame-haired woman murmurs. "I was a call girl" -- and she's also a transsexual and a pastor's daughter. Perfect for any show about the impact of the sex industry on young women. As she starts to tell us her eye-popping story in the third-person plural, Galinsky cuts in. "Speak in the 'I'!" he shouts. "Eliminate 'you, me, they, us.' It's all about me!" ♦♦♦♦♦ "All about me" has become the mantra of reality TV, even if it means opening up painful private lives to cameras and sacrificing family and friends -- and even, perhaps, if it means someone might die. VIDEOS: Emmy Roundtable: Reality TV The already pushed-to-the-limits reality TV industry was rocked Aug. 15 by news that Russell Armstrong, 47, the oft-featured estranged husband of Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong and father of three, had committed suicide in advance of the show's second-season premiere. Armstrong's personal battles with his wife were documented in detail on the show. When he hanged himself at a friend's house, he was said to have been struggling with financial problems as well as overall concerns about his negative portrayal on the show (though he, and all other reality participants, sign waivers for filming). He told People magazine in July, "This show has literally pushed us to the limit." The series will now be re-edited, according to Bravo president Frances Berwick, and might have its Sept. 5 debut delayed. But the suicide has set off a media firestorm, especially following reports that Armstrong wasn't even paid to appear on the show. As Bravo executives debate whether to air programming that documents a man's descent to suicide, Armstrong's family and victims' rights advocates have slammed the network for moving forward with the show in light of the tragedy. STORY: Hollywood Walk of Fame Bans Reality Stars "I don't want to see one frame of my son on the show next season," Armstrong's mother, John Ann Hotchkiss, told The New York Daily News. "I've never sued anyone in my life, but they aren't going to walk all over me and the family." Armstrong was hardly alone in finding the reality of reality TV even more brutal than it appears onscreen. In fact, his plight was the extreme end of a business dependent on people with deep flaws, clinical phobias and other psychological issues. PHOTOS: The Jersey Shore Hits Italy Since launching in the U.S. with Survivor in 2000, unscripted television has moved beyond the competitions and dating foibles that defined its youth. Increasingly, the popular shows (especially on cable) document weaknesses of the human condition. A woman featured recently on TLC's My Strange Addiction carried around her husband's ashes until she began eating them (and then was institutionalized). The child mothers of MTV's 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom regularly grace the covers of celebrity magazines. All of this is taking a psychological toll. As one longtime reality star admits to THR, "It's kind of warped my mind." Related Topics Nicole Polizzi Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino Bravo Jersey Shore The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Hoarding: Buried Alive 1 2 3 4 5 next last
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Jessica Alba's Baby (And It Is Overflowing Diaper) Inspired 'Spy Kids: Constantly within the World' (VIDEO)
Who understood that Robert Rodriguez's bloodstream-drenched knife-fest 'Machete' will be the inspiration for that 4th 'Spy Kids' movie? The director told Moviefone that seeing Jessica Alba's attempts at handling her baby's "overflowing diaper" while filming the cult hit sparked the concept for any spy mother by having an infant with you. Alba herself, who had her second baby days following this interview, agreed it's difficult juggling movies and mommyhood simultaneously. We also sitting lower with 'Spy Kids 4' stars Jeremy Piven, who were built with a blast playing multiple figures new kids Rowan Blanchard and Mason Prepare and 'Spy Kids' veteran Alexa Vega, who told us coming back towards the franchise was "surreal" which, yes, she still will get acknowledged as Carmen Cortez. Joel McHale also shared an Aroma-Scope (the scratch-and-sniff card being provided throughout all tests) secret around: "My character has the aroma of lavender." Okay, that isn't among the smells on the Aroma-Scope card, but nice try, funny guy.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Bruce Willis looking for G.I. Joe 2
Action Follow up G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation is apparently about the edge of adding a heavyweight title to its cast as Bruce Willis.Based on the Warmth Vision blog, Vital are presently located in discussions using the Die Hard star, getting apparently reserved him for that role of General Joe Colton.As observed in the 1980s comic-book series, Colton was accountable for founding the G.I. Joe strike team (possibly better referred to as Ultimate Freedom Fighting Pressure) and also the first guy to become granted the moniker G.I. Joe.Director John M. Chu has put together a largely new cast with this second crack in the G.I. Joe franchise. Channing Tatum will go back to reprise his role as Duke, with Ray Park (Lizard Eyes), Byung-hun Lee (Storm Shadow) andArnold Vosloo (Zartan) ready to recreate their original figures.However, they will be became a member of with a glut of recent recruits including Dwayne Manley, Adrianne Palicki and RZA. Ray Stevenson is yet another new addition, using the Thor star set to experience franchise villain Firefly.It may sound just like a good fit for Willis's grizzled action chops and the addition would hopefully bring some welcome humour to proceedings.Shooting starts in New Orleans in the finish from the month, using the film is pencilled set for a Stateside discharge of 29 June 2012.Source: Warmth VisionG.I. go, or G.I. no? Inform us your ideas.
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