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Iggy Azalea and Jennifer Lopez: "Booty" Video Teaser Features Plenty of Booty, Lube

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Booties are big right now, and both Iggy Azalea and Jennifer Lopez have big booties, so when it came time to pick a title for the song they worked on together, well we’re guessing it was a pretty short meeting… Yes, Iggy and J. Lo unleashed “Booty” on the world last week. It’s actually a remix of a track from Jen’s latest album, but the single version has Iggy replacing Pitbull, which makes way more sense. Unlike, Pitbull, Iggy is a warrior in the battle of the booties . Plus, she and J. Lo made a video that looks like this: Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea: “Booty” Teaser Yes, it’s pretty much the Citizen Kane of booty-shakin’. We didn’t think it was possible but these ladies might have out-assed  Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” video . Jen and Iggy have something to prove and it’s not hard to see why: J-Lo was the original Queen of the Big Booty Era, but these days she’s been all but eclipsed by the big-bottomed likes of Nicki and Kim Kardashian. For her part, Iggy has been publicly accused of having a “fake booty,”  a slight no big-butted female rapper should have to take sitting down. So rather than argue for their relevance or the realness of their asses, Iggy and Jen simply decided to pour on the KY and shake it like it owes them money. And for that, we thank them. 23 Hottest Jennifer Lopez Photos 1. Jennifer Lopez, No Makeup Jennifer Lopez is makeup-free in this close-up. But she did remember to bring her boobs.

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If You Don’t Like These Films, You’re Fired! Donald Trump Picks Five Favorite Flicks For Movieline

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Ever wonder where Donald Trump got his take-n0-prisoners executive style?  Well, based on his favorite movies, it’s part Corleone family , part Tommy DeVito , part Rhett Butler and part Blondie from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , although, frankly, it was  Clint Eastwood who could have used a little of the Donald’s mojo when it came to that lame-ass speech  the actor-filmmaker gave at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. After the Today show aired an unseen GOP convention video on Wednesday that featured the real-estate tycoon and reality-TV-show host firing President Obama Celebrity Apprentice -style — check out the video after the jump — Movieline  got to thinking about what  films Trump might like to watch when he’s not the one on camera. We inquired, and he graciously provided us with a list that, if you ask me, provides an interesting glimpse into his business philosophy. The son of the late real-estate developer Fred Trump, Donald didn’t just follow in his father’s footsteps, he built the Trump name into an internationally recognized brand and became a hip-hop idol in the process. Given his beginnings, it’s not surprising that one of his picks deals with another type of family business. Another choice, reveals that for all the firing he does, Trump is a romantic at heart. Herewith, are Trump’s five favorite movies, along with commentary from the man himself. 1. Citizen Kane (Director, Orson Welles; 1941):  ” It is one of the greats of all time. The acting, the story, the production values are all superb. The fact that it was Orson Welles’ first feature film is also impressive, and the mystery of Rosebud in the midst of a narrative about a business power play gives it further resonance. Hard to beat.” 2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Director, Sergio Leone; 1966)  ” It’s tough. It’’s real. It’s well done. The music is unforgettable. The characters are well developed and sometimes remind me of some of the types I’ve had to deal with over the years in business. No weak points here.” 3. Gone with the Wind (Director, Victor Fleming; 1939):  “It’s a classic. It has stood the test of time. For me, it’s a love story combined with a time in our country’s history that was pivotal in our evolution. The scope of the storytelling is tremendous.” 4. G oodFellas (Director, Martin Scorsese; 1990):  ” Great entertainment, with a stellar cast and terrific direction.  The intensity propelled the story forward and the ‘business’ and how it was handled was impressive.”  5. The Godfather (Director, Francis Ford Coppola; 1972): Another classic, as was The Godfather: Part II.   The story is riveting and the characters were perfectly cast and directed. The family aspect intrigued me as did their business and history. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

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TDKR Trumps $300M in N. America; Hawk Koch Steps Down from PGA: Biz Break

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Also in Wednesday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs news Hawk Koch steps down from PGA presidency; A pair of film pick-ups for U.S. release; Two companies team for a “social film project” and William Hurt and Michael McDonald take on new roles. Hawk Koch Temporarily Stepping Down as PGA President Koch was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last night. He’s taking a leave of absence from the presidency of the Producers Guild of America. Co-president Mark Gordon will continue as the sole president of the group. Excuse Me for Living Headed for U.S. The film will open October 12 both theatrically and via day and date VOD platforms via DadaFilms/Required Viewing, which announced its acquisition of the title Wednesday. Starring Tom Pelphrey, Christopher Lloyd, Wayne Knight, Jerry Stiller, Robert Vaughn and Melissa Archer, the film centers on a charming, suicidal druggie must obey his rehab-clinic’s demand to lead a seniors men’s group or face incarceration and lose the love of his psychiatrist’s daughter. Sushi Girl Heads to U.S. Theaters Phase 4 Films and Magnolia Home Entertainment jointly picked up North American rights to the film directed by Kern Saxton. The revenge thriller will have a theatrical release in the U.S. and cable VOD by Phase 4 in late 2012, with Blu-ray, DVD and digital VOD handled by Magnolia in early 2013. Mark Hamill stars as Fish, who has spent six years in jail. The night he is released, the four men he protected with silence celebrate his freedom with a congratulatory dinner. The meal is a lavish array of sushi, served off the naked body of a beautiful young woman. The sushi girl seems catatonic, trained to ignore everything in the room, even if things become dangerous. Toshiba and Intel Team for The Beauty Inside The two companies are collaborating to create a social film project and has a global online casting call to audition for a starring role online . Starring Topher Grace ( That ‘70s Show ) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead ( Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ) and directed by Sundance award-winning director Drake Doremus ( Like Crazy ), The Beauty Inside is an experiment in social entertainment. The project will engage the audience through social media and encourage them to connect and interact with Alex via Facebook. The film will be available online in weekly episodes starting on Aug. 16 and continue over 6 weeks. Around the ‘net… The Dark Knight Rises Hits $300M Milestone The final Batman installment by Christopher Nolan hit the $300 million milestone in North America Tuesday after 12 days. Only The Avengers and Nolan’s The Dark Knight have hit that figure quicker, THR reports . William Hurt Joins Winter’s Tale Hurt plays the father of a dying young woman who falls in love with a thief who breaks into her home in the Warner Bros adaptation of the novel by Mark Helprin. This will be Oscar-winning writer Adiva Goldsman’s directorial debut, Deadline reports . Michael McDonald Takes On The Heat McDonald hails from the Fox series Mad TV . He joins Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, playing a villain in the 20th Century Fox-produced project which Paul Feig will direct, Deadline reports .

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Win ParaNorman Premiere Tickets with Your Best Haiku

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Calling all ParaNorman fans both young and not so young! You now have a chance to be among the first to check out the new stop-motion animated comedy thriller. Movieline is giving away a pair of tickets to the World Premiere of ParaNorman in addition to the pic’s soundtrack (composed by Jon Brion!). To decide our lucky winner who will get to attend the event this coming Sunday, August 5th at 2pm at the Hollywood Theater, we’re hosting a good old fashioned Haiku contest – or more specifically – a ParaNorman Haiku contest. That’s right, get your creative writing game on, and add your lovingly typed Haiku in the comments below. To get you started, here is a rundown of the film : Voiced by Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, John Goodman and Casey Affleck, the movie centers on a misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead. He uses his skill to take on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a longtime curse. Chris Butler and Sam Fell directed the Focus Features release. ParaNorman will be released in theaters everywhere on August 17th. The soundtrack, with its music by famed composer, record producer, and singer-songwriter Jon Brion, is set for release August 14th from Relativity Music Group. Brion previously composed the music for three of Paul Thomas Anderson’s features:  Hard Eight  (a collaboration with Michael Penn);  Punch-Drunk Love and Magnolia . The latter earned him his first Grammy Award nomination. His second came for his score for Michel Gondry’s  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . The Focus Features film also earned him 2 World Soundtrack Award nominations. The contest is in conjunction with the soundtrack’s release, so perhaps song titles may inspire a thought or two for your Haiku Track Listing for  ParaNorman ‘s Soundtrack : Zombie Attack In The Eighties  Norman at the piano/main title  Norman’s walk  Alvin attacks  Enter Neil/Mr P/Ghost Walk/Ghost Dog  Goodbye Mr P/Historic Drama/Grounded/Heavy visitation  Alvin again/Scary bedroom  Norman tries to keep it cool/ Grandma’s got your back  Moth Rock  The dead shall be raised  Zombies Attack  People Attack  Are we there yet?  Aggie Fights  Resolution  Oh, and one more thing The Rules (life is full of them, right?): – Haiku entries must follow the 5-7-5 syllable format (all others are lovely for sure, but simply not a haiku). – The contest is open now through 3pm Pacific Time Thursday, August 2nd – Entrants must be able to attend the premiere in Los Angeles Sunday, August 15th at 2pm, Hollywood Theater. – Entrants must register with their email address when you log into the Comment Section in order to be contacted if selected. – Only one entry per person. OK, rules are done. Get your goulish ghost talkin’ thinking caps on and dish out your Haiku and win those tickets! Also here’s a pair of trailer to get those creative juices flowing…

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Vertigo > Citizen Kane? Sight & Sound Declares the Greatest Film of All Time

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Here comes the cinephile debate of the day: After polling 846 film experts, BFI’s Sight & Sound declared Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to be the #1 greatest film of all time, topping Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane , Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story , and classics from Renoir, Murnau, Kubrick, and more of your favorite all-timers. It’s a triumph long in coming for the Hitchcock pic, which only first made Sight & Sound’s once-a-decade list in 1982 and has been working its way up the ranks of critical opinion since. Does the 2012 poll finally have it right? Culled from Top Ten lists from 846 critics, academics, writers, and programmers, Sight & Sound’s GOAT survey is at its widest to date. The full ten: The Critics’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time 1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) 2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) 3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) 5. Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927) 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) 7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956) 8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) 9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927) 10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963) Somewhere out there, Kim Novak is raising her fist in victory while William Friedkin – who told Movieline Citizen Kane set the bar for cinematic greatness so high, trying to match it is what keeps him going – is probably shaking his damn head. Meanwhile, 358 filmmakers were polled for a separate director’s choice, yielding some interesting differences in opinion: The Directors’ Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time 1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) and Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) (tie) 4. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963) 5. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1980) 6. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979) 7. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) and Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) (tie) 9. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974) 10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948) It’s interesting to note the divide between critics’ and filmmakers’ ranking of Vertigo , which is a more populist-romantic choice in ways than Citizen Kane ; perhaps unsurprisingly, the directors’ list is much more auteur-heavy in its leanings. But let’s open this up to discussion: Is Vertigo really the best film of all time? (Is it even the best Hitchcock of all time?) Have at it in the comments below! Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Wiz Khalifa Arrested For Marijuana Possession, Again

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Wiz Khalifa has been arrested for marijuana possession, again. It’s the second such arrest in the last 10 days for the rapper. The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina confirms that Wiz got popped for possession of marijuana after his concert in Winston-Salem last night. Officers discovered 11.39 grams of pot after searching the rapper and his tour bus. It’s unclear what prompted the search initially, but so it goes for Wiz. Khalifa was cited, released and ordered to appear in court at a later date. He was just arrested for marijuana at the Holiday Inn in Nashville on April 21. [Photo: Pacific Coast News]

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Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann: Expecting a Boy!

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It will also be a boy for Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann. On the heels of news breaking over the gender of Kristin Cavallari’s baby with Jay Cutler, the Real Housewife of Atlanta tells Life & Style that she’s scheduled to give birth to a son. “We’ll save money since we already have all this boy stuff,” says Zolciak , who also has two daughters and another son. “It’s just a blessing – perfect!” Zolciak and Biermann wed in November and, of course, didn’t care about the gender of their child once they learned Kim was pregnant again. “We just want a healthy baby,” Zolciak says.

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Patricia Medina Dies at 92

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the ’50s spanned comedies, dramas, adventure films and thrillers, has died. She was 92. Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, passed away Saturday at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. She had been in declining health. A petite, dark-haired beauty who launched her career in England in the 1930s, Medina was married to actor Richard Greene when she arrived in Hollywood. Medina starred in Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), Sangaree with Fernando Lamas (1953), Plunder of the Sun with Glenn Ford (1953), Botany Bay with Alan Ladd (1953) and Phantom of the Rue Morgue with Karl Malden (1954). She also played opposite Louis Hayward in the ’50s adventure films Fortunes of Captain Blood , The Lady and the Bandit, Lady in the Iron Mask and Captain Pirate . Medina and Greene were divorced in 1951. In 1960, she wed the widowed Cotten, who had made his feature film debut in Welles’ 1941 classic Citizen Kane . They appeared in a number of stage productions together. Medina made her Broadway debut in 1962 in Calculated Risk , starring Cotten, who died in 1994.

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David Copperfield Totally Lost Out on Orson Welles’s Oscar

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Tucked away in this report that Orson’s Welles’s Citizen Kane Oscar finally sold this week for $861,542, find this depressing revelation: “Underbidder David Copperfield had been eager to acquire the statuette because Welles apparently was something of a magician himself. Copperfield already owns many props from the movie.” The winner of the auction has not been identified, but whatever. “Underbidder David Copperfield.” Saddest holiday ever. [ Deadline ]

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Shame’s Late Night Lovers Pile on David Denby

Posted on December 13, 2011 by | Leave a comment

When it rains it pours. Ask David Denby, the embattled, embargo-flouting New Yorker critic who, over the course of one week, has drawn the wrath of both Scott Rudin and Shame ‘s unsung co-stars Calamity Chang and DeeDee Luxe — a.k.a. Late Night Lover #1 and #2. Tough crowd!

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