Lady Gaga And The Rock Horror Picture Show? After making her debut on The CW’s small screen cult favorite Gossip Girl, Lady Gaga has set her sights on starring in a big screen musical.
“She sees it as a natural progression in her career,”a spywitness tattles. “One idea she has is for a rock opera, which would be a huge, big budget movie made to her own very unique ideas.”
But never fear. The outrageous singer will always put her music first. “It’s just a matter of finding time when she is not committed to her first love – music,” says the friend.
Holy script leak! Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has reportedly acquired a copy of the script of the hotly-anticipated Sex And The City sequel. According to The NY Post, the foreign publication has published several key details of the film’s plot for all the Manolo-wearing Carrie loverss who can’t wait until next spring to find out what happens when the most stylish group of friends in the Big Apple invade the big screen for the second time.
A film about the end of the world annihilated the weekend box office.
The Sony Pictures action saga 2012 — the story of a scramble to save remnants of humanity aboard giant arks as the earth’s crust shifts and flood waters pour over most of the planet — earned $225 million at the international box office between Friday and Sunday. Featuring a cast led by John Cusack, Danny Glover and Chiwetel Ejiofor, 2012 was directed by Roland Emmerich — who also helmed disaster flicks Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow.
Overseas, 2012 did $17.2 million in France, $15.3 million in Russia, $9.9 million in South Korea and $8.1 million in Spain.
Campaign groups have in Britain have slammed Universial Pictures, the studio behind the recent box office comedy Couples Retreat, after two black actors were airbrushed from advertisements across the pond.
American posters for the film — which stars Vince Vaughn and Kristin Davis — features all eight of the movie’s principal actors, including Afro-Cuban comedian Faizon Love and African-American actress Kali Hawk. But Love and Hawk were removed from the promotional campaign ahead of the movie’s U.K. release last month. Read the rest of this entry »
Victoria Beckham’s movie career is apparently taking off. (Insert eye-rolling here….) The ex-Spice-Girl-turned-fashion-designer has reportedly landed a role in the next installment of the Madagascar animated film series.
Beckham has been cast in first Hollywood role alongside Ben Stiller and David Schwimmer in the upcoming Madagascar 3, according to new reports. The 35-year-old mother of three will voice a character in the film, which is due for release in 2012.
The first Madagascar movie, about a group of zoo animals accidentally shipped back to Africa, was a hit at the international box office upon its release in 2005. A successful sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, followed in 2008.
This won’t be VB’s first venture into the world of animation; the singer provided a voice-over for the Nickelodeon hit SpongeBob Squarepants earlier this year.
She introduced Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart while casting Twilight — and now director Catherine Hardwicke is dishing about the romance between two of the most beloved young stars today.
Despite previously denying they are a couple, the director – who helmed the first movie in The Twilight Saga, in which the pair play lovers – insists persistent rumours they are enjoying an off-screen romance are true.
Check out the trailer for Date Night with funny folks Tina Fey and Steve Carell. The comedy — which also stars Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg, and James Franco — opens in theaters April 9, 2010.
Claire and Phil Foster (Tina Fey and Steve Carell) are a typical suburban couple whose lives including their weekly date nights of dinner and a movie have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. But as Claire and Phil take their unexpected walk on the wild side, they begin to remember what made them so special together.
Will Smith will star in and produce a remake of Flowers For Algernon, based on the 1966 novel by Daniel Keyes, NewsinFilm.com is reporting
The plot focuses on Charlie, a man with mental disabilities, who takes part in an experiment that turns him into a genius. Algernon — who originated from Keyes’ 1959 short story –has been turned into a feature film several times before, most famously for 1968’s Charly, which won actor Cliff Robertson an Oscar.
The movie will be made in cooperation with Sony Pictures and Will’s Overbrook Entertainment and Polksy Films.
Director Pete Docter hopes his hit comedy Up will become the first animated film since 1991’s Beauty and the Beast to vie for a Best Picture Oscar, now that the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has expanded the annual list of nominees to 10.
Up, about an old man and a boy who float off to South America in a house tied to helium balloons, has earned wide acclaim from both fans and critics since its theatrical release last May. Beauty and the Beast remains the only animated movie ever nominated for Best Picture in the show’s more than 80 year history. Nonetheless, Docter is hoping Oscar voters will evaluate his film the same way it evaluates others when it is time to select nominees for the 2010 ceremony.
“We happen to use computers to be telling the story, but it’s first and foremost about the storytelling, just like anything else,” the lensman told Reuters. “For the world to look at it that way as well, that would be great.”
