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Ever since Edward Norton was ousted and later replaced (with Mark Ruffalo) as Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk, in Marvel Studios' big super-team movie, The Avengers, the two-time Academy Award-nominated actor has shied away from big studio productions. However, it now appears as if Norton might be hitting the big screen in a summer event movie just a few months after The Avengers debuts. According to Variety, Norton is "in negotiations" in star opposite Jeremy Renner as the villain in Universal's The Bourne Legacy.
more about The Bourne Legacy >> Posted 07.13.11 by BrentJS -
Gangster Squad is getting a new member.
Deadline reports that Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar) has joined the Warner Bros. production as a police officer whose specialty is electrics and wiring. The rest of the squad, so far, includes Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Bryan Cranston and Michael Pena.
Gangster Squad is based on a series of Los Angeles Times articles by Paul Lieberman which followed an elite squad of police officers who went after gangsters like "Mickey" Cohen (played by Sean Penn in the movie) in 1949 Los Angeles. Novelist and former South Central Los Angeles cop Will Beall wrote the script, which will be directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less). Production begins this September.
Oz, Pacific Rim and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D get new cast members >> Posted 07.07.11 by Ryan -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen is goddess-free now that pot mag cover girl Natalie Kenly has dumped him. In response, Sheen has demanded the return of the Mercedes he bought her.
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TMZ predicted it would go for $400K, we thought it would be closer to $1M, but we were both wrong as Michael Jackson's red leather Thriller jacket sold over the weekend for a whopping $1.8M.
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Jennifer Aniston got her first tattoo. It's on the inside of her right foot and in memory of her late dog Norman. More from Jennifer about the tattoo on today's Hollywood Dailies.
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Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz got hitched in very low-key fashion last week at a private ceremony with just four guests. The couple had been dating for just over a year.
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Disgraced former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner lunched with wife Huma Abedin and couldn't put away the Blackberry.
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While promoting the romantic comedy Larry Crowne, Tom Hanks said he thinks Pixar is planning on making a Toy Story 4. Toy Story 3 earned over $1 billion in worldwide box office.
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Yoda, a 14-year-old Chinese Crested Chihuahua, has won the world's ugliest dog contest, and by the looks of him it wasn't even close.
Posted 06.27.11 by reelz -
The 23rd James Bond movie is now back on track, with a director (Sam Mendes), a lead actor (Daniel Craig) and a release date (Nov. 9, 2012). The movie has also been the subject of rumors including a rumored new title (Red Sky at Night? Really?), a rumored female villain (Rachel Weisz), and a rumored "good guy" formerly a possibly bad guy" (Simon Russell Beale) as well. Outside of Craig, the cast has received its first official member, Dame Judi Dench.
more on Dench's return >> Posted 01.28.11 by Ryan -
With a James Bond 23 movie in the works, speculation runs high about who the next 007 femme fatale might be. Bookmakers in the U.S. and U.K. have been giving odds on who could be cast. At present, Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) is leading the odds race with some bookies giving her 1/1 odds ahead of Zoe Saldana (2/1) and Emma Watson (10/1). Rumors that Rachel Weisz is romantically linked to Craig — and that she has met with director Sam Mendes — have fueled speculation that an announcement of her involvement in the movie is right around the corner. But some fans theorize that Weisz, instead, may be the first female mastermind villain Bond confronts.
So crunching data like an MI6 analyst, we’ve compiled a list of the bookmakers’ odds-on favorites for you, our faithful agents, to vote on.
Who will be the new Bond girl? Vote here, now >>
Posted 01.27.11 by reelz -
After it looked like James Bond was going to succumb to his biggest nemesis ever (MGM's bankruptcy) but was saved just at the last minute, an appropriate title for the 23rd installment of the most successful movie franchise in history could have been Better Late than Never.
But now there are rumors that James Bond's next adventure will be called Red Sky at Night. And you thought Quantum of Solace was bad.
Though it has to be pointed out that the source of the new title comes from the British tabloid The Sun, which is less reliable than anything in Q's laboratory.
Will Rachel weisz be Bond's first "mastermind" villain? >> Posted 01.21.11 by Chris -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
On Christmas, 84-year-old Hugh Hefner used his iPad to tweet his engagement to 24-year-old December 2009 Playboy Playmate Crystal Harris. Way to go, Hef, for embracing technology at that age, while Crystal still uses a corded phone!
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Less than two months after Darren Aronofsky and Rachel Weisz announced their split, Weisz and Daniel Craig were seen canoodling in NYC over the weekend. Hat tip to TMZ, that suggested the "Blond Bond" was in the picture at the time of the separation. Weisz and Craig star along with Naomi Watts in Dream House, a thriller that opens February 18.
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Late last week it looked like Lindsay Lohan was off the hook for her Betty Ford Clinic catfight with Dawn Holland after Holland's attorney said she would drop all charges and not cooperate with police on an investigation. However, the Palm Desert Police Department tells E! that the investigation is ongoing.
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Bristol Palin, in a heated battle with Snooki and her mom for the "Least Talented, Most Successful" crown, has paid $172,000 cash for this 5 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 3 car garage house in Maricopa, AZ. Bristol is toying with the idea of attending some college classes at Arizona State.
Posted 12.27.10 by reelz -
More actresses are being rumored for the female roles in Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated The Dark Knight Rises. Last week, Charlize Theron, Vera Farmiga, and The Burning Plain actress Kacie Thomas were rumored to be up for the roles of Sarah Essen, a love interest for Commissioner Gordon, and Julie Madison, all of which remains unconfirmed.
MORE >> Posted 11.12.10 by Ryan -
An early promotional trailer has appeared for actress Rachel Weisz's next vehicle The Whistleblower. A politically-charged action movie based on the true-life experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.
Directed by filmmaker Larysa Kondracki, Weisz is joined by Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, David Hewlett and Liam Cunningham.
Red band warning! The trailer contains some language. You can view it here.
Posted 06.01.10 by reelz -
Darren Aronofsky will be directing his wife, actress Rachel Weisz, in a movie about Jackie Kennedy, the First Lady of America's Camelot.
Entitled simply Jackie, the new project will be about the immediate days following President Kennedy's assassination in 1963—particularly focusing upon the first lady during four days between the assassination and his burial, "showing the beloved [Jackie] Kennedy at both her most vulnerable and her most graceful."
The script, written by Noah Oppenheim had been shopped around recently by none other than Steven Spielberg, although Entertainment Weekly now reports that "Spielberg is not involved in any way" and that Aronofsky will both direct and produce the film.
Posted 04.15.10 by reelz