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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
While Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take the stage this morning at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to announce iCloud, Lion, and iOS 5, the Associated Press is busy interviewing top Hollywood studio and record label execs to update his obituary.
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Match.com is no match for the set of X-Men: First Class as co-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult are dating, as are Zoe Kravitz and Michael Fassbender. Earlier it was rumored the father of January Jones's baby is director Matthew Vaughn.
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Season 4 of Jersey Shore — the one that was just shot in Italy — premieres on August 4th, while Season 5 is set to tape in New Jersey this month, which is apparently unbeknownst to the cast, who have booked extremely lucrative appearances over the summer.
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People says Cameron Diaz and Alex Rodriguez are over. US Weekly says they're still together. Which celebrity gossip magazine to believe?! Either way, Diaz is doing her best to keep up her image, telling Britain's News of the World, "Sex is my favorite sport. I am always in the mood."
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Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis address romance rumors at last night's MTV Movie Awards by groping each other.
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Later today it's expected Katie Couric will announce plans to jump to ABC to do a daytime talk show, the same day Scott Pelley takes over her duties as the host of the CBS Evening News.
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Twilight star Nikki Reed and American Idol contestant Paul McDonald are tying the knot, after just three months of dating.
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The U.K.'s Daily Mail wonders what the heck happened to Goodfellas' Ray Liotta. Now we are too.
Posted 06.06.11 by reelz -
In what seems like an endless barrage of promotional footage, Twentieth Century Fox has released yet another preview clip from the upcoming X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class, as well as two more TV spots.
Earlier in the week, another TV spot debuted along with a Beast-centric (Nicholas Hoult) preview clip showed the character's first meeting with Professor X (James McAvoy), Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and, last week, a French trailer and TV spot premiered just days after the debut of the movie's first preview clip and three TV spots. And that's just in the past week.
The latest preview clip continues with the bond between Beast and Mystique, as the two discuss how alienated their mutant abilities have made them feel.
watch the videos >> Posted 05.20.11 by Ryan -
The first preview clip for director Matthew Vaughn's X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class, involved Professor X (James McAvoy), Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne), and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) try to convince the CIA and The Man in Black (Oliver Platt) of the existence of mutants.
The latest preview clip again sees Professor X teaching The Man in Black about mutants, as he reveals that Henry "Hank" McCoy — aka Beast (Nicholas Hoult), who has been working for as a research assistant for the government — is also a mutant. The scene is the longer version of the footage shown in the Beast character video.
watch the clip >> Posted 05.19.11 by Ryan -
After releasing trailers for X-Men: First Class characters Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Havok (Lucas Till), and Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones), now we have one for Mystique, played by (Jennifer Lawrence).
Portrayed by Rebecca Romijn in the previous X-Men trilogy, Lawrence has described her version as Mystique as "more of an insecure teenager" than Romijn's version. The trailer shows Lawrence and her budding romance with Beast (Hoult), along with footage of her growing bond with Magneto (Michael Fassbender).
watch the video >> Posted 05.06.11 by Ryan -
While it's hard to ignore that Thor is the comic book movie of the moment, X-Men: First Class will follow in June and Fox is keeping the promotional machine working on all cylinders. Last month saw the release of a new theatrical trailer and photos, a series of international trailers and posters, and a TV spot, to name a few.
The latest First Class promos come from MTV in the form of character videos that give a brief introduction to the characters of Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Havok (Lucas Till), and Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones). The videos offer new footage of each character, particularly Banshee, who hasn't shown up too often in the movie's trailers.
watch the videos >> Posted 05.05.11 by Ryan -
Summit Entertainment has added the second lead for its upcoming zombie love story, Warm Bodies.
Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class) was cast in the lead role of "an existentially tormented zombie named R" earlier this month, and now THR reports that Teresa Palmer (I Am Number Four, Take Me Home Tonight) will play the girlfriend of one of R's victims and a military leader's daughter. The two eventually embark on an unlikely friendship as Palmer's character tires of the constant battles between zombies and humans.
Jonathan Levine (50/50) directed and adapted the screenplay for the movie, which is based on an upcoming novel by Isaac Marion. Marion's novel began as a short story called "I am a Zombie Filled With Love" which can be read here.
Warm Bodies isn't the only zombie love story in development. Screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno) is producing an adaptation of Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, based on the novel by S.G. Browne.
Warm Bodies has the advantage since Summit has experience blending romance and the undead, having produced all of the Twilight movies. Whether Hoult's skin will sparkle is unknown so far.
Posted 03.30.11 by Ryan -
Last week, comic book movie fans were given the opportunity to ask producer Bryan Singer questions about director Matthew Vaughn's X-Men prequel movie, X-Men: First Class, by using the new "X-Perts" feature on the movie's official Facebook page. This week, fans were given the opportunity to query actor Nicholas Hoult about everything from prosthetics and make-up to filling Kelsey Grammer's shoes as the new Henry "Hank" McCoy, aka Beast, and the chosen questions, and Hoult's responses, are now online.
read the Nicholas Hoult Q & A >> Posted 03.24.11 by BrentJS -
The first trailer for X-Men: First Class was released last month and included footage of almost all the mutants in action, including Lucas Till as Alex Summers, aka Havok, blasting away, Nicholas Hoult as Beast both with and without fur and January Jones as Emma Frost changing into her diamond skin form, to name a few.
The Russian trailer revealed even more footage, including the first look at Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee using his sonic powers, more of Hoult's transformation into Beast, James McAvoy as Professor X in the fire-filled room depicted in the latest still image, and Michael Fassbender entering the icy blue hall of mirrors shown in a previously released image.
Watch the trailer >> Posted 03.15.11 by Ryan -
George Miller would have already been shooting the fourth Mad Max movie, a Tom Hardy "relaunch and revisit" of the character "Mad" Max Rockatansky titled Mad Max: Fury Road. Like the other Mad Max movies, Miller planned to shoot in his native Australia, but heavy rains in the Broken Hill region of New South Wales, Australia, caused the sequel to suffer a delay. "Unfortunately for Mad Max, what was wasteland is now this wonderful flower garden," Miller explained last October.
In a recent interview with The Daily Telegraph, Miller said that he "will restart pre-production later this year and begin [shooting] early next year — weather permitting."
Mad Max 4 is "locked in" >> Posted 03.05.11 by Ryan -
Nicholas Hoult is filling up his post-X-Men: First Class schedule. After donning blue fur to play the mutant X-Man Beast, First Class producer Bryan Singer was impressed enough to cast Hoult as the lead in his upcoming Jack the Giant Killer. After that, Hoult will play a romantic member of the undead.
undead romance... sign me up! >> Posted 03.03.11 by Ryan