It appears that Charlie Sheen has worked out most of the glitches in his celebrated and controversial new web show Sheen’s Korner . In tonight’s installment, “Building the Perfect Torpedo,” — yes, there are episode names now — Sheen debuted a thrilling opening sequence (captured here for your mandatory viewing) and delivered 15 minutes worth of original insults directed at his enemies from cue cards . To paraphrase the former Two and a Half Men star, click through to dance in Sheen’s gold.
Here’s some (ahem) uplifting news to start the week: Real life just got a little bit closer to Pixar movies! Or at least closer to Up . A group of scientists have found that you actually can make a house float simply by tying hundreds of helium balloons to it. 300 balloons, to be exact. If this feat into isn’t cause for universal celebration, I’m not sure what is. Surely, an even larger group of scientists is working to take this research to its natural conclusion and find a way for humans to actually live inside the Pixar movies we love so dearly. Check out the video of the floating house after the jump.
Johnny Depp and his Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski notched another win on their belts as Rango opened in the top spot this Friday. Matt Damon’s The Adjustment Bureau manged a close second place while Beastly came in third. And speaking of beastly, the long-shelved, yayo-packed Take Me Home Tonight barely registered with audiences, coming in tenth place. Your Friday box office is here.
Sheen had already mentioned the poetry in his fingertips , but now we’ve got some evidence to back that up. GQ has unearthed a self-published book of poetry that Sheen put out in the early 90’s. Some of it serves as a somber (and probably overdue) counterpoint to his recent interviews. And then there’s that one where the character peels off his latex Charlie Sheen mask to reveal “the rotted skull of President Lincoln.”
MTV News visited the ‘Game of Shadows’ set on its final day of production. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Robert Downey Jr. on the set of “Sherlock Holmes” Photo: MTV News MTV News’ arrival on the U.K. set of “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” marked a melancholy occasion. Not because things weren’t going well on the sequel to 2009’s $520 million-grossing hit, or because stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law weren’t happy to see us. But our January visit coincided with Law’s final day in production, and he and Downey felt like they were just getting warmed up. “We were talking so much about the possibilities of more, and loads of ideas and situations, on the first one,” said Law, who returns to the fold as sidekick Watson to Downey’s ass-kicking Holmes. “We’ve got even more ideas now, and I hope we’re going to be allowed to do another one again.” “We’re clinging on to this thing,” Downey laughed. “It’s going to have claw marks in it when we let go.” Warner Bros. hardly wants the duo to relinquish the new franchise anytime soon. While the characters are based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic 19th-century literary creations — ones that hardly had the contemporary appeal of a caped superhero — the success of the ’09 flick was anything but assured. Yet under the steady guidance of director Guy Ritchie and keying off the bromantic chemistry of its two male leads, “Sherlock Holmes” grossed $62 million over its opening weekend — even as it went head-to-head with “Avatar.” Now they’re back, and they’ve asked Noomi Rapace , the star of the Swedish-language “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” trilogy, to join up as a gypsy. Or as Ritchie put it to us, “A gypsy princess with balls — that’s what Noomi brings to the table.” The sequel focuses on a web of conspiracies overseen by nefarious Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris). After Rapace’s gypsy meets up with Holmes and Watson in London, the story pushes out of the city and takes on a far greater scope than the first one. But ultimately, like that ’09 film, whether or not the sequel works will rest greatly on the sizzling back-and-forth between Downey and Law. From what we saw on the U.K. set, no one should be worried. “It feels a bit like a relay team,” Law said their dynamic. “He leads, then he hands the baton off to me, but it’s done subconsciously.” “I also think there are two kinds of performers,” added Downey. “I’ve heard of, and I guess I’ve experienced the kind that are like, ‘You want to play ping-pong? Because I’ll kick your ass!’ Everything is about, ‘I’ll do it better than you.’ Whereas, we become this third thing, this brotherhood.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
Big-name stars like Justin Timberlake, Kanye West and Britney Spears have also had tense run-ins with photographers. By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Photo: x17online.com For many celebrities, their relationship with the prying lens of the paparazzi has always been love/hate. Some bask in the attention and others complain of being hounded relentlessly by hungry photographers. This week, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were caught up in a paparazzi kerfuffle while celebrating the Biebs’ 17th birthday in Los Angeles. After giving the paps the finger during the encounter, Bieber later apologized via Twitter . But he’s only the latest in a long history of celebrity/celebrity-photographer encounters: Everyone from Lily Allen to Coldplay’s Chris Martin to Sean Penn (the king of paparazzi knockdowns) has had heated moments with the paps. Here, we look back at some of the more memorable run-ins. Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz Like Bieber and Gomez, then-couple Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz were involved in a scuffle with the paps in 2006. Diaz claimed a photographer tried to run her over, while the photographer claimed the actors had trapped him as he was trying to get away. Bj
It’s already shaping up to be a huge year for Teresa Palmer. Last month, the Australian actress kicked serious alien ass as a mystery assassin in the Michael Bay-produced I Am Number Four , and was rumored to be dating Zac Efron. This weekend, Palmer officially emerges from the shadows of her Twilight doppelgänger Kristen Stewart with her leading role in the 80’s romantic comedy Take Me Home Tonight co-starring Topher Grace.
Good morning to you on this very special day! No, not Gavin McLoed’s [sic] 80th birthday , though that deserves recognition, I can’t lie. But! Lou Reed was born 69 years ago today in Brooklyn, NY — a location that would become the partial subject of his fantastic appearance in the 1995 ensemble-improv weird-out Blue in the Face . Let’s reminisce and pay some much-deserved respect below.
While you were sleeping, Charlie Sheen wasn’t. In between calling out to his Twitter followers for questions and comments , Sheen’s two children were removed from his home by police after his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, received a court order following an alleged Sheen-ified death threat : “I will cut your head off, put it in a box and send it to your mom.” Deeeeeeeeeeeeeep breath.
