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The fashion, the stars, the speeches...whatever your reason was for watching the Golden Globes on Sunday, it was all on display in the telecast. From the deft hosting by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (the bar has been raised, Seth MacFarlane) to the sincere, yet sometimes awkward speeches, there were plenty of highlights from last night's Globes ceremony, which, thankfully, we have compiled right here for you.
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"See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."
There are very few movies that can claim to have been conceived by a scientist, let alone a Public Welfare Medal recipient — the highest award of the National Academy of Sciences — but Contact is one of them. Originally pitched as a film treatment by astrophysicist, cosmologist and author Carl Sagan in the early '80s, Contact became a novel when the movie became mired in development hell. Years later, Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the movie and hired Robert Zemeckis to direct it.
Contact is based on the work of the real-life Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program, which uses scientific methods to scan the cosmos for electromagnetic radiation that could indicate extraterrestrial transmissions. Two-time Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster (The Accused, Silence of the Lambs) stars as Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway (Jodie Foster), a scientist who works for SETI at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. On the verge of being shut down, SETI receives a transmission from the star Vega that includes technical schematics for a machine or craft of some sort. The nations of the world fund the building of the machine, which they hope will allow us to contact whoever sent the signal. However, not everyone is happy with the prospect of humanity making "contact" with aliens. Matthew McConaughey, William Fichter, Angela Bassett, Tom Skerritt and James Woods also star.
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watch the trailer >> Posted 11.17.12 by BrentJS -
Yesterdays child actors, today's superstars!
We're all too familiar with the supposed "curse" of being a child actor. A darling child with a precocious knack for acting grows up with too much fame and fortune and too little (or the wrong kind of) parental supervision and they grow up to become a tabloid headline and late night talk show punchline. Or, worse yet, they don't make it to adulthood at all. Lindsay, Amanda, Corey, Macaulay, Demi, Miley...the list goes on and on. Just as we can't look away as we slowly pass by a terrible accident on the freeway, we often find ourselves compelled to stare at the wreckage so many child stars make of their adulthood.
Though the stories of tragic former child stars may make for juicier reading while standing in line at the check-out stand, the great majority of child actors grow up to become well-adjusted adults. Most leave acting behind and move on to "normal" careers as teachers, bankers or software engineers, but many remain in show business, finding even greater success as an adult. Hit the link below to find out the Most Successful Child Actors Still Working in Show Business today.
WHO DEFIED THE "CURSE?" >> Posted 10.05.12 by BrentJS -
Sony's panel at the San Diego Comic-Con concentrated on their upcoming sci-fi projects, and one of the more highly-anticipated is Elysium, writer-director Neill Blomkamp's follow-up to his 2009 debut District 9. Blomkamp was on hand to discuss the movie, along with producer Simon Kinberg and stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley. The Comic-Con was a first for both Damon and Foster.
Seven minutes of footage from the movie were shown, though parts of it were unfinished, and a good amount of the shots were still in the pre-visualization phase. It didn't matter — the footage was still incredibly impressive and fans of District 9 will no doubt be pleased with the finished product. What the footage ultimately accomplished was to explain the movie's mysterious plot, which has been kept under wraps until a synopsis was leaked out last month that confirmed Blomkamp's previous description of Elysium as a movie with "sociopolitical ideas" inside a "Hollywood action film."
damon and copley breathed fecal matter for the shoot >> Posted 07.15.12 by Ryan -
It's been a while since we heard anything about writer-director Neill Blomkamp's new sci-fi movie, Elysium, the follow-up to his extraordinary 2009 feature debut, District 9. While set photos have revealed that the movie will star a bald Matt Damon, little has been revealed about the movie's plot outside of Blomkamp describing it as a sci-fi movie with "sociopolitical ideas" inside a "Hollywood action film." Casting notices also informed us that Jodie Foster was going to appear in the movie, but nothing was known about her role.
Thankfully, a synopsis for Elysium has finally been revealed via Collider. The site discovered a ticket for an advance preview that offered a detailed explanation of the movie, which indeed pays off on Blomkamp's promise of action interwoven into a deeper theme, not unlike what he accomplished with District 9.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
This morning both NBC and Meredith Vieira finally made it official that she's leaving the Today show next month and will be replaced by news anchor Ann Curry.
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Pippa Middleton has been offered $5 million to do porn, and it's all for just a single scene. No word yet from Pippa about Vivid Entertainment's offer, but it's reported the party planner wants to start her own party planning business.
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Kate Gosselin wore what looked to be a pterodactyl's nest on her head at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, and rightfully had anxiety about it beforehand tweeting, "Having hat panic - it's big & feathery & matches my dress perfectly. But it's a big one to pull off."
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CSI star Marg Helgenberger told French radio that Justin Bieber was "kind of a brat" on the set of the show, locking a producer in a closet and putting his fist through a cake.
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Despite pretty solid reviews, Mel Gibson's The Beaver bombed at the box office, earning just $104K on 22 screens over the weekend. The Jodie Foster-directed movie cost $21M to make.
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Charlie Sheen is teaching his two-year-old twins how to say "rehab" so they always know where their mom is. Ex-wife Brooke Mueller is not amused and is threatening to sue Sheen for violating the terms of their divorce, which state he's not allowed to publicly speak about Mueller in a negative way.
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Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and Anton Yelchin headline the cast in the upcoming drama, The Beaver. In the movie, Mel uses a beaver hand puppet to communicate and deal with his problems. So Hollywood's Top Ten is counting down the best puppet and marionette scenes in movies. Which ones entertain you the most? Now's your chance to rank your favorites for us. And remember, if your favorite isn't listed, go ahead and add it.
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Despite the shambles he has made of his personal life, actor and Academy Award-winning director Mel Gibson's professional career seems poised for a comeback thanks to The Beaver, the dark comedy directed by and co-starring Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster that recently premiered at the currently-ongoing South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, to "rousing applause" from the audience. If you were unable to make the trek to Austin, check out these three new clips from The Beaver to see a little of what the buzz is all about.
watch the preview clips >> Posted 03.17.11 by BrentJS -
Director Neill Blomkamp's District 9 follow-up, Elysium, is starting to look less mysterious, at least in terms of the cast. Sharlto Copley was confirmed in December for the project, which Blomkamp has described as a sci-fi movie with "sociopolitical ideas" inside a "Hollywood action film."
Deadline reports Copley will be joined by Jodie Foster and Matt Damon in the movie. Like Copley, the roles Foster and Damon will play are unknown, as is the movie's plot. Blomkamp released a strange viral video in November titled AGM Heartland, though whether the video has any relation to Elysium is, again, unknown.
Elysium has no release date so far, since the movie is still being shopped to studios, but the growing cast should entice a studio and perhaps a release date will be announced shortly. Until then, Foster fans can enjoy her next directorial effort, The Beaver, which follows Mel Gibson as a depressed man who uses a puppet to reconnect to his friends and family on April 11.
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After Summit Entertainment put the release of The Beaver on hold following the scandal surrounding the movie's lead, Academy Award-winner Mel Gibson, this summer, it was unclear what would become of the black comedy directed by and co-starring Academy Award-winner Jodie Foster. Neophyte writer Kyle Killen's screenplay for The Beaver, about a formerly successful toy executive (Gibson) who uses a hand puppet to help him reconnect with friends and family after falling into a deep depression, has been lauded for years, even landing atop the 2008 Black List for best unproduced screenplays. However, despite a strong screenplay, and even with Foster's description of Gibson's performance as "one of his most powerful and moving performances," Summit pulled The Beaver from its December release and did not submit it to the Academy for consideration. Apparently, Summit feels that the controversy surrounding Gibson has died down sufficiently to take The Beaver out of its holding pattern because the movie has been slated for a Spring 2011 release, and a wealth of promotion materials for the movie have recently been released, including a new theatrical poster, a detailed synoposis and the first trailer for the movie.
read the synopsis and watch the trailer >> Posted 12.05.10 by BrentJS