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Posted 05.23.12 by Mandy ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Michael McKean, best known for playing David St. Hubbins in This Is Spinal Tap, was struck by a car Tuesday in Manhattan. The actor suffered a broken leg and is currently hospitalized. McKean was on his way to the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre to perform in The Best Man when hit, resulting in him missing a curtain for the first time in his 40-year career.
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Last night, Donald Driver, wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, took home the mirror ball trophy on Dancing with the Stars. He and dance partner Peta Murgatroyd were the champions of the show's 14th season. Last season, Peta was eliminated in the first round.
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It looks like Snooki will be out shopping for a tiny blue T-shirt with "GTL" emblazoned on the front. The reality star revealed to In Touch that she's having a baby boy this September. Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and fiancé Jionni LaValle are considering the names Lorenzo or Jionni Jr.
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In other celeb baby news, trainer Jillian Michaels told People that she went from being childless to becoming the mother of a two-year-old and a newborn all in one week. Michaels brought home her Haitian daughter, Lukensia, after a long adoption process the same week her partner, Heidi Rhoades, gave birth to their son, Phoenix.
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Tara Reid has a new beau, and new access to A-list parties. The 36-year-old actress and party girl attended the Lady Joy Boat Party in Cannes with 60-year-old jeweler Fawaz Gruosi. Though she has a new old guy, some pics of Tara leaving the party seem to prove that she's still the same girl who hosted Taradise.
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Posted 05.23.12 by Ryan This summer will see Tom Hardy play two tough, no-nonsense characters: as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, and as Forrest Bondurant in director John Hillcoat's gritty period piece, Lawless, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. While Hardy's role as the Gotham-terrorizing Bane has received most of the attention in the lead up to the summer months, it's the British actor's role in Lawless that — albeit quietly — looks to be just as intense (as an added bonus, audiences will also be able to see Hardy's facial expressions).
Based on Matt Bondurant's novel The Wettest County in the World, Lawless focuses on three brothers — Forrest (Hardy), Jack (Shia LaBeouf) and Howard (Jason Clarke) — whose bootlegging business is threatened by various forces in Prohibition-era Virginia. Two new preview clips highlight the troubles that face the Bondurants, with the first finding Hardy quite unhappy with the intimidation techniques of Chicago lawman Charles Rakes (Guy Pearce).
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Posted 05.23.12 by Ryan 1922. Nosferatu was released. Construction on Yankee Stadium began in the Bronx. Insulin first successfully treated diabetes. And Jack White and Jay-Z ruled the radio airwaves...wait? At least, that's the case in the first trailer for director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, Luhrmann's adaptation isn't the first to make it to the big screen. It is, however, the first to make it in 3-D. While Fitzgerald's story of love and class warfare doesn't seem like a natural fit for eye-popping effects, the first Great Gatsby trailer showcases the lavish spectacle Luhrmann has in store for audiences. Luhrmann's visual style is no secret to anyone that has seen his 1996 version of Romeo & Juliet or 2001's Moulin Rouge. Both also featured an eclectic soundtrack.
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Posted 05.22.12 by Chris So far, the cast of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises has been pretty good about keeping mum on the movie's script, not revealing any significant plot details or spoilers. Up until now the biggest spoilers have come from leaked set photos, but when Tom Hardy was asked what it was like working with Gary Oldman on three projects (The Dark Knight Rises, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and this summer's Lawless), he may have accidentally revealed a key plot point from the movie.
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Posted 05.22.12 by reelz We've got great news for fans of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth — not to mention miniseries fans in general. Reelz is set to be the premiere home for the eight-part adaptation of the sequel, World Without End, which was on The New York Times bestseller list for 26 weeks.
Set in Kingsbridge 200 years after the events of Pillars, World Without End picks up with a new cast of characters. Caris, a feisty young woman played by Charlotte Riley (The Duchess, Wuthering Heights), inspires her medieval town to confront the most powerful forces of her time, the Church and the Crown, as Kingsbridge fights to save the town from ruin and, ultimately, usher in a new era of freedom, innovation, and enlightenment.
World Without End also stars Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City, The Big C) as the beautiful and deadly schemer Petranilla, Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Young Victoria) as the strong and determined Mother Cecilia, Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line, Me and Orson Welles) as the mysterious Sir Thomas Langley, Peter Firth (MI5, The Hunt for Red October) as the ruthless Earl Roland, Rupert Evans (Hellboy, Agora) as the duplicitous Godwyn, Nora von Waldstaetten (Carlos, The Countess) as the street-wise peasant girl Gwenda, Oliver Jackson-Cohen (What's Your Number, The Raven) as the rough and dangerous Ralph, Tom Weston-Jones (Coppers, MI-5) as the creative and ambitious Merthin, Megan Follows (Heartland, Anne of Green Gables) as Maud, a lady fallen from grace, and Sarah Gadon (Cosmopolis, A Dangerous Method) as the attractive and intelligent Philippa.
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Posted 05.22.12 by Ryan For anyone that's seen the trailers and TV spots for Universal's Snow White and the Huntsman, it's clear that the dark, action-driven movie isn't the typical adaptation of the Snow White fairytale. If the most recent trailer, released in March, left viewers with any questions, the studio has released a new, interactive version of the trailer via Yahoo!, which provides plot details and behind-the-scenes information about the movie.
Some of the information might seem extraneous; other bits are pretty interesting — that Charlize Theron was cast before Kristen Stewart, that Stewart had to endure swimming in a sewer set with dozens of live rats for an escape sequence. The trailer also includes more about the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) and the eight (remember what we said about this not being a typical adaptation?) dwarfs in the movie.
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Posted 05.22.12 by Chris Continuing the trend of giving fans a sneak peek of upcoming movies, Sony announced today that a six-minute preview of The Amazing Spider-Man will run before all 3-D IMAX and select 3-D showings of Men in Black III this weekend.
Last December, Warner Bros. successfully generated good buzz about The Dark Knight Rises by attaching an extended preview to IMAX screenings of Mission Impossible 4. However, Sony's decision to preview Spider-Man before Men in Black III seems to be about boosting MIB 3's opening numbers as much as building buzz for Spider-Man (Warner Bros. didn't release Mission Impossible 4, so the Dark Knight Rises preview was an unexpected bonus for Paramount's bottom line).
The Men in Black franchise has been dormant for 10 years so anything Sony can do to push fans to go see Will Smith and Co. is probably a good move. While tracking for MIB 3 is strong, with a reported budget of $375M (including marketing and advertising), Sony faces a steep uphill battle to see a profit.
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Posted 05.22.12 by Ryan Everyone has that "guilty pleasure" comedy that was maligned by most. For this writer, it's Starship Troopers, and yes, it is a comedy — watch it again if you disagree. For others, that guilty pleasure is, apparently, Saturday Night Live skit-turned-movie MacGruber, which bombed at the box office back in May of 2010, even though it received mixed reviews. MacGruber fared better on DVD, where it earned about half of its worldwide box office.
For those who have the movie on disc and have defended that purchase to their friends, there's some good news. MacGruber director Jorma Taccone told Screen Crush that he and star Will Forte are planning a sequel.
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