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After Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, this weekend's horror movie Mama doesn't just star Jessica Chastain but "Golden Globe winner" Jessica Chastain. It might seem strange to see an award-winning actress in a horror movie, but the trend of respected actors taking roles in horror movies is on the rise. Just last year, Oscar–nominated actor Ethan Hawke (Training Day) starred in supernatural horror-thriller Sinster while Golden Globe-nominated Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona) appeared in British ghost story movie The Awakening.
Of course, horror movies have historically been a place where actors often get their start. In fact, a surprising amount of Hollywood stars and Academy Award winners and nominees have started their careers in the horror genre, and, in fact, some are still working in the genre.
check out the list >> Posted 01.18.13 by Ryan -
It looks like it's going to happen. EW reported that a Bridget Jones 3 is in the works. Working Title Films has apparently been considering a third installment since 2009, and has finally decided to go ahead with the project. The London Evening Standard reported in March that author Helen Fielding had been working on the third novel and was in talks for a third movie. At the time she had said that she wasn't sure if the book and movie would be "the same thing." Well, they were barely the same thing for the second Bridget movie, so it seems that the third novel could easily be very different for the third movie.
It's not official, but Colin Firth revealed what the movie could be about in an interview last year.
What did Firth say? Posted 08.12.11 by Mandy -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Sarah Palin has obtained a new restraining order 19 year-old Shawn Christy, who, according to the legal docs, has phoned Palin's house calling her a "slut or whore," and threatened to rape daughter Bristol Palin. Christy has been stalking Palin since 2009 with email and phone messages, and at least one letter containing a receipt of recent gun purchase.
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Must love dogs? Since splitting with Rene Zellewger, it's rumored Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Aniston may be hooking back up. "A source" tells People, "Jen always had a soft spot for Bradley, and she thinks he is very attractive and charming. Jen appreciates that Bradley is low-key, loves dogs and is focused on his movie career."
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David Hasselhoff has gone public — in a big way — with his romance to factory worker, aspiring model, and Pamela Anderson look-a-like Hayley Roberts as The Hoff couldn't keep his hands or his lips off of her.
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Cristina Ricci has called Robert Pattinson a good kisser, but a bad cold during filming of Water For Elephants made it an intensely unpleasant experience for Reese Witherspoon. Witherspoon said, "Rob possibly had the most hideous horrible cold of any co-star I've ever had to do a love scene with ever in my entire life. He was literally snorting and snotting through every second of it — and it was not appealing. I'm talking green, infectious, disgusting — I'm not kidding!
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Gwyneth Paltrow recently made waves looking exceedingly good in a tiny blue bikini, and the star said her slim physique it's not an accident, or genes, or "fairy dust." "The reason that I can be 38 and have two kids and wear a bikini is because I work my [expletive] ass off," she says.
In the May issue of Self magazine, Paltrow describes her workout: "I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening."
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After spending time together at Disneyworld, Courteney Cox and David Arquette went their separate ways and shared private moments with talk show hosts. Arquette again went on Howard Stern's show and said, "Listen, I tried to f*** her, and she doesn't even want me." Cox went on Late Night and told David Letterman, "He hit (on me) pretty hard, and I said, 'You know, you don't have the Fast Pass right now. Not to that ride!'"
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen has fired literary agent Peter McGuigan after he could only get a $1M deal — offered by a single publisher — for Sheen's life story, Apocalypse Me. Sheen had wanted $10M for the project. Meanwhile, another "goddess" has been added to Sheen's warlock harum. The 26-year-old Megan Levant apparently has been dating the actor "for several months," and seems a perfect fit as it's reported she "loves porn and is a regular visitor to the Playboy mansion."
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While Lindsay Lohan is taking her chances with a trial by rejecting a plea deal in the jewelry theft case, her dad, Michael Lohan, is headed for the same courthouse and may even face the same judge as his daughter in his domestic violence case.
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Katherine Heigl is seen puffing away on an e-cigarette over a pasta and beer lunch in an apparent effort to beat her addiction to nicotine. Either that, or dealing with the stress of an acting career in jeopardy as her latest movie, the crime comedy One for the Money, has been pushed from this summer to the graveyard of January 2012.
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There is a mistress involved in the Bradley Cooper–Renee Zellweger split, and it's apparently Cooper's rising career and ascention to leading man status. "Renee had to take a backseat (to his career)," a source says. "It was just not working out."
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Two weeks after Julianee Moore was tapped to play Sarah Palin in HBO's upcoming film Game Change, Ed Harris has been cast as candidate John McCain.
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Are you old enough to remember watching the steamy sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now? Neither are we, but a new book by Variety editor Peter Bart claims the two actually had unsimulated sex in front of the camera.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen crashed Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and planted a big, sloppy kiss on the shocked/terrified host's lips. Along with a smooch, Sheen gave Kimmel a coffee mug with cartoon foxes pasted on it, fueling speculation that the warlock assassin may have closed a deal with FOX after meeting with the network last week.
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Michael Lohan was arrested last night for felony domestic violence after an altercation with his girlfriend. Meanwhile, his ex-wife Dina Lohan tells the New York Daily News that daughter Lindsay is seriously considering pleading no-contest in necklace theft case when it goes back to court on Friday. That would mean a maximum of three months in jail for LiLo, with the possibility of as little as three weeks due to overcrowding.
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While Tiger Woods has apparently begun dating 22-year-old Alyse Lahti, it's now claimed Lahti was friends with Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren and lived next door to the couple's home where they had their 2009 Thanksgiving blow up. Earlier, Lahti's 2010 DUI arrest produced one of the least-flattering mug shots on record.
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Rachel Uchitel, perhaps best knows as Woods' "Number 1" mistress — and with little debate the number 1 most attractive — is also moving on, now "madly in love" with insurance underwriter and former Penn State football player Matt Hahn, who's 10 years younger.
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After her surprising breakup with Bradley Cooper, the Oscar-winning Renée Zellweger was spotted dining, shopping, and attending the Broadway opening of the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Alone.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
After flubbing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl, passing out at Jeremy Renner's 40th birthday party, and threatening to fire anyone who suggests she needs help, Christina Aguilera is going Sheen, arrested last night for public intoxication while her boyfriend Matthew Rutler was arrested for DUI.
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While Lindsay Lohan allegedly steals really crappy-looking $2,500 necklaces, Oscar co-host Anne Hathaway was paid $750,000 to wear Tiffany & Co. jewelry for the event, while Gwenyth Paltrow earned $500,000 to wear earrings, a brooch, and ring from Louis Vuitton for her performance of "Coming Home." Helena Bonham Carter, on the other hand, wore charms from a pair of Flip Out flip-flops given away at the Four Seasons hotel.
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Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado tweeted that she's donating $1M of "Qaddafi clan" money to charity. She was paid one million dollars by the family for a 45-minute show in Italy in 2007. No word yet from Mariah Carey, who was paid $1M by the Gaddafi regime for singing four songs at a 2009 New Year's Eve party in St. Barts, nor from Beyonce or Usher, both of whom were paid undisclosed sums — our guess, $1M — by Saif Gaddafi for the 2010 St. Barts New Year's bash.
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Renee Zellweger is set to reprise her role as Bridget Jones for the third Bridget Jones movie, but only after "she found out she wouldn't have to get fat." Reigning Best Actor Colin Firth is also interested in starring in the sequel.
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No fat for supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who showed off her abs — and her spine — during a shoot for V Magazine.
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LATEST CHARLIE SHEEN QUOTES
* Called his current life with his twin boys and two 24-year-old girlfriends "a polygamy story."
* Said he and his girlfriends "win so radically in our underwear before our first cup of coffee, it's scary. People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view."
* Called Hugh Hefner "an amateur."
Also don't miss: A picture of Sheen with twin boys Bob and Max, alongside his "goddesses," porn star Bree Olson and pot magazine bikini model Natalie Kenly.
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Not much has been revealed so far about The Hangover 2, director Todd Phillips' follow-up to last year's enormously successful comedy. Phillips has previously said that the sequel won't take place in Las Vegas again, nor will it be set in Thailand or Mexico. Phillips did mention a November 1 start date for production. Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis told HitFix that he has seen the script for the sequel.
I saw the script and we start shooting it very soon. Quite excited about shooting it. The script is quite good. It's hard because the movie was such a big thing, to top that will be difficult. As far as the script goes, we're half-way there.
the latest hangover 2 rumors >> Posted 10.01.10 by Ryan -
While it remains to be seen where Case 39 character Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland) ranks on our Evil Movie kid scale, the latest clip from the upcoming thriller shows that the girl will at least destroy your car. Renee Zellweger stars as the girl's social worker who saves Lilith from her abusive parents only to discover that evil forces surround the child. Christian Alvast (Pandorum) directed the movie, which opens on October 1, and also stars Ian McShane and Bradley Cooper.
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After three long years of sitting on a shelf, Paramount is finally releasing Case 39, a thriller starring Renee Zellweger as a social worker who is in for a terrible surprise when she saves a 10-year-old from her abusive parents. Christian Alvast directed the movie prior to 2009's Pandorum, as it was originally slated for release in 2008. While this is usually a "red flag," the latest trailer shows that the thriller could entice the horror movie crowd when it opens on October 1.
Read the synopsis and Watch the trailer >> Posted 08.20.10 by Ryan -
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Forbes announced Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston as the biggest female moneymakers in Hollywood this past year. Many people are, of course, already taking note of the Brad Pitt connection. From June 2008 to June 2009 Jolie pulled in $27 million, while Aniston earned $25 million.
Jolie's big paycheck comes courtesy of Wanted, which grossed $341 million worldwide, and an advance for her role as a CIA agent in Phillip Noyce's upcoming Salt. Aniston's money comes from box-office winner Marley & Me, as well as her role in SmartWater commercials. She also received an advance for The Baster, where she will star alongside Juliette Lewis, Jason Bateman, and Jeff Goldblum.
Completing the top 10 are Meryl Streep, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz, Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Drew Barrymore, and Renée Zellweger.
THR also noted that the $183 million earned by the Top 10 women falls well short of the $393 million taken in by the Top 10 men. Harrison Ford topped that list with $65 million.
Posted 07.02.09 by reelz