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That image of the upside airliner is going to stick with us for a while.
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Posted 10.28.12 by BrentJS -
Don't you hate it when you're a piano prodigy and you want to check your mother into rehab but instead get caught up helping her drug dealer, all before you audition for a prestigious music program? That everyday occurrence is the story behind Why Stop Now?, the upcoming dramedy from newcomer Phil Dorling and Ron Nyswaner (screenwriter Philadelphia), who based the movie on their 2008 short Predisposed. The movie debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year — back when it was still titled Predisposed — after which IFC Films picked up the distribution rights.
Why Stop Now? certainly boasts an impressive cast. Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) plays Eli, the aforementioned piano prodigy, while Academy Award–winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter) plays his mother and Emmy nominee Tracy Morgan (30 Rock) plays Sprinkles, the drug dealer who puts Eli to work interpreting Spanish for him during a business transaction in the movie's first trailer.
watch the trailer >> Posted 07.06.12 by Ryan -
The Independent Spirit Awards nominations are out and guess who isn't pleased?
With silent movie The Artist and apocalyptic drama Take Shelter receiving the bulk of the nominations, including Best Feature (along with cancer comedy 50/50, father-son drama Beginners, noir thriller Drive, and family dramedy The Descendants), director Kevin Smith questioned why his horror movie Red State got completely snubbed. Smith took his complaint to his Twitter, where he called out the Spirit Awards for ignoring his cast.
what choice words did smith offer? >> Posted 11.30.11 by Ryan -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Tina Fey has met her match in the Sarah Palin lookalike competition as Julianne Moore debuted her version of the former vice presidential candidate for HBO's Game Change. Meanwhile, yesterday the real-life Sarah Palin mocked her nemesis/departing CBS news anchor Katie Couric for leaving newsreading to focus on "multi-dimentional storytelling," saying, "Yeah, and I hear that she wants to now engage in more 'multi-dimensional story telling' versus I guess just the 'straight on, read into the, that teleprompter screen story telling." Previously Palin read local sports news from a teleprompter for KTUU in Anchorage, Alaska.
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As has been previously reported, Prince William will not wear a wedding band once he's married to Kate Middleton, and in keeping with their modern approach to marriage — or perhaps in exchange — Middleton will not vow to "obey" the prince, but instead promise to "love, comfort, honor and keep" him. The official wedding program has been released with pictures and all the vow details.
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Jessica Alba turns 30 today and in celebration you can choose either Pop Sugar's Jessica Alba Bikini Gallery or Radar Online's Jessica Alba Bikini Gallery. Last near Alba became nearly as famous for her bad acting as for her bikini body, winning four "Worst Supporting Actress" Razzies for her roles in The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete, and Valentine's Day.
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After winning over the crowd in Houston on Tuesday, Charlie Sheen stunk up the American Airlines Center in Dallas last night with fans leaving "by the dozens," but not before heckling him. Many tickets were given away for free. Sheen only has four performances left before "The Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour is put out of its misery.
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The real-life mother of boxer Mickey Ward, portrayed in The Fighter by Melissa Leo, died yesterday after being pulled from life support. Alice Ward, 79, had suffered a massive heart attack in January. Leo, of course, won a Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as the family matriarch.
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Bon Jovi #2 Richie Sambora has checked into rehab for alcohol abuse. By our count this is the third rehab trip for the guitarist after visits in 2007 and 2009.
Posted 04.28.11 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
This morning Charlie Sheen made the rounds of the non-CBS network news shows, telling ABC's Good Morning America he's going to sue CBS for breach of contract and that he's "here to collect." He also appeared on NBC's Today show saying he's got "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA," and made an offer to return to Two and a Half Men for $3M per episode after CBS apologizes "while licking my feet." NBC teased a second part of the interview, in which Sheen talks about his women — "goddesses," he calls them — on tomorrow morning's show.
On Friday Sheen was banned from Warner Bros. studios and responded by saying, "Doesn't matter too much because after Wednesday they'll have to rename Warner Bros. as Charlie's Bros. I will fire those clowns and bring in my own team."
RELATED: The Blazing Sheen: High Priest Vatican Assassin Warlock
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Melissa Leo has apologized for dropping an F-bomb at last night's Oscars, adding, "I really don't mean to offend and it's probably a very inappropriate place to use that particular word." Meanwhile, Best Actor winner Colin Firth is disappointed at the muting of several F-bombs for the PG-13 cut of The King's Speech, saying the R-rated version of the newly crowned Best Picture winner "has its integrity as it stands."
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The Vanity Fair Oscar after-party was a hot ticket as usual, and Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez made it increasingly clear that the couple is, in fact, a couple.
Posted 02.28.11 by reelz -
We're coming to the end of awards season with the Oscars airing this Sunday and, to be honest, there haven't been that many surprises. Heck, the Academy even snubbed Christopher Nolan again, this time failing to nominate the director for helming Inception. So, amidst the obvious and unoriginal, we consulted our friends at Ask Deadpool for a truly fresh take on the Academy Awards — what could the night look like if Deadpool took a stab (ahem) at hosting the Oscars?
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the 83rd Academy Awaaaards! With your hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaw--
Wait wait waaaait jus' a minute there, announcer-dude, yer kiddin' me, right? Bob got th' call last week askin' me ta host this fancy shindig. So here, read my intro; an get that curly-haired dude outta here! ...The hot chick c'n stay if she wants, though...
Check out the full comic, Deadpool Presents: The Oscars > >
Posted 02.22.11 by reelz -
Hollywood Dailies' Jeremy Parson files his second blog about being in Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival. Parson got to talk to the cast of the comedy Cedar Rapids, chat up Ben Foster about his upcoming movies and talked to Golden Globe winner Melissa Leo. And, of course, he caught up on some 3-D.
read Jeremy's blog >> Posted 01.24.11 by reelz -
Paramount has released a large selection of new still images from director David O. Russell's (Three Kings) new movie, The Fighter, a biographical sports movie based on the incredible true story of "Irish" Micky Ward (played by Mark Wahlberg), a welterweight fighter who rose from obscurity to take on such notable fighters as Arturo Gotti and Sugar Ray Leonard. The movie is several weeks away from being released, but it is already receiving Oscar buzz thanks to its "secret" screening at AFI Fest, with most of the kudos going to Christian Bale as Dicky Ecklund, Ward's half-brother and a former boxer-turned-crack addict who helps Ward train, and Melissa Leo, who plays Ward's domineering mother.
what did Wahlberg say about the AFI audience's reaction to the first screening? >> Posted 11.21.10 by BrentJS -
If there are types of movies that get nominated for Oscars on a regular basis, it's fighting movies and horse racing movies (Million Dollar Baby, Seabiscuit, Rocky, National Velvet, to name a few). David O. Russell's The Fighter may well be added amongst those Academy Award nominees when it opens on December 10 (we're certainly counting on it).
The Fighter tells the true-life story of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), who rose from obscurity to contend for a title with the help of his half-brother and trainer, Dickie Ecklund (Christian Bale), who suffers from crack addiction. In the latest clip, Ward's girlfriend Charlene (Amy Adams) tries to pry Ward away from the influence of his brother and mother (Melissa Leo).
watch the clip >> Posted 11.19.10 by Ryan -
Variety reports that Amy Adams is in negotiations to star in The Fighter alongside Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, and Melissa Leo, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Frozen River.
Due for release sometime in 2011, The Fighter is being directed by David O. Russell, who helmed I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings, Spanking the Monkey, and the upcoming political comedy Nailed starring Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal. The Fighter is based on the true story of "Irish" Micky Ward, a boxer from South Boston who rose to prominence on the welterweight circuit during the mid-1980s.
Wahlberg will portray Ward, while Bale will play Ward's half-brother, Dicky Eklund, who recovered from drug addiction to help guide Ward's career. Leo will portray Ward's mother. If cast, Adams would play the part of a bartender who develops a romantic relationship with Ward.
Adams's other upcoming projects include Julie & Julia, in which she will star opposite Meryl Streep. She also recently finished filming for Anand Tucker's romantic comedy Leap Year.
Posted 06.30.09 by reelz