Halle looks so cute. Halle Berry sure loves her some of that swirly peen. We ain’t mad Oliver is fine as hell. We know he’ll be able to protect her after that azz whoopin’ he gave Gabriel. Halle Berry Shows Off Baby Bump According to US Magazine Dangerous curves ahead! Halle Berry stepped out wearing a super-sexy ensemble for a casual outing with daughter Nahla in Beverly Hills on Sunday, June 9. The 46-year-old actress, who is five-months-pregnant with her first child with fiance Olivier Martinez, showed off her growing baby bump in a sheer black blouse while grocery shopping at Bristol Farms. The X-Men: Days of Future Past star also offered a glimpse of her lacy black bra underneath, and paired the see-through top with tiny denim shorts. Wearing a pretty pink sundress, 5-year-old Nahla held hands with her mom while walking through the parking lot. Berry gave photographers a glowing smile after picking up some treats. Though her second pregnancy came as a shock, Berry has been fully embracing it. “This has been the biggest surprise of my life, to tell you the truth,” she told CNN in April. “Thought I was kind of past the point where this could be a reality for me. So it’s been a big surprise and the most wonderful.” Are you feeling Halle’s maternity steez? AKM/GSI
The Twilight actor will star in Tatua based on an original script. Also in Tuesday’s round-up of film news, John August is eyeing an adaptation of Wonder . Ang Lee is set for a Sound Editors fete and more. Twilight ‘s Kellan Lutz to Star in Tatua The Twilight Saga ‘s buffets vampire has signed on to star in indie genre film Tatua , based on an original concept. The story revolves around a man with a rare blood type that can handle being tattooed with a powerful ink that allows him to pull weapons straight off his skin allowing him to be an effective covert assassin, Deadline reports . John August Eyes Wonder Adaptation Lionsgate is in final negotiations to pick up rights to R.J. Palacio’s debut novel Wonder and is in talks with Frankenweenie writer John August to adapt the pre-teen story about a 10 year-old boy whose facial deformity prevents him from attending a mainstream school. The story explores the theme of bullying and told from multiple points of view, Variety reports . Ang Lee to be Honored by Sound Editors The Life of Pi filmmaker will receive the 2013 Filmmaker Award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors at the group’s 60th MPSE Golden Reel Awards on February 17th in Los Angeles. Lee won an Oscar for Best Director in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain , THR reports . Larry Hagman Remembered Privately Two private services will take place in Dallas and L.A. for the actor best known for playing J.R. Ewing in Dallas . He played the scheming oil tycoon on the popular television series beginning in 1978 through the ’80s. He took up the character in a Dallas reboot 20 years later. His film roles include Fail-Safe, Nixon and Primary Colors , BBC reports . R.I.P. Marty Richards The producer and philanthropist died at 80. His Broadway credits include Chicago, Sweeney Todd, La Cage aux Folles , and Crimes of the Heart . His film credits include Chicago , The Boys From Brazil, Fort Apache, The Bronx, and the Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining , Deadline reports .
December 14th is the day when Peter Jackson will unleash the first of his Hobbit films, but that doesn’t mean it’s practically in the can. Jackson is bunkering down in the Park Road Post Production facility in Wellington, New Zealand to finish up the first in the trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey . “It’s due to be completed literally two days before the premiere. Hopefully,” Jackson comments in the film’s latest production video (below). “You’re going to see a lot of sleep-deprived people in this blog — everybody’s working around the clock to get the film finished.” The behind the scenes look shows Jabez Olssen and Jackson editing the film, final construction of hundreds of CGI shots and working on sound effects for the feature which stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Cate Blachett and Elijah Wood. “We’ve got another three weeks…and then another couple films,” Jackson said. “The journey’s long from over, it’s just really starting.” Meanwhile, a new clip from the film also rolled out. The scene shows Gandalf (Ian McKellen) giving a magical sword to Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman). It’s rather quick and Gandalf seems to forewarn of its pending need. Peter Jackson interview : First clip : [ Sources: Wired , The Film Stage ]
Prepare for a double dose of mutant powers: The X-Men of the past and future will collide in Bryan Singer ‘s forthcoming sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past , which will bring Patrick Stewart ‘s Professor X and Ian McKellen ‘s Magneto together with their X-Men: First Class counterparts James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in the same film, Singer announced today. I’d like to officially welcome back James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, & Nicholas Hoult to #XMEN for #DaysOfFuturePast — Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) November 27, 2012 Thrilled to announce @ ianmckellen118 & @ sirpatstew are joining the cast of #XMEN #DaysOfFuturePast #magneto #professorX More to come… — Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) November 27, 2012 This should be exciting for X-Men fans, who’ve seen the comic book franchise flit around timelines and younger/older versions of the same characters since Singer’s X-Men spawned a film universe of spin-offs and standalone superhero pics. This synopsis for X-Men: Days of Future Past explains how two Professor Xs and Magnetos can co-exist in the same film (via The Film Stage ): The storyline alternates between present day, in which the X-Men fight Mystique’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and a future timeline caused by the X-Men’s failure to prevent the Brotherhood from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly. In this future universe, Sentinels rule the United States, and mutants live in internment camps. The present-day X-Men are forewarned of the possible future by a future version of their teammate Kitty Pryde, whose mind traveled back in time and possessed her younger self to warn the X-Men. It’s a familiar tale to fans of the X-Men comic; the dystopian alternate future saga of Days of Future Past was a hugely popular storyline, adapted memorably in the animated X-Men series in episodes featuring the time-traveling Bishop. The original comic storyline featured Kitty Pryde in the pivotal time-traveling role; is it too much to hope for Ellen Page reprising her X3 character to bring the entire X-Men film franchise full circle? (Probably.) X-Men: Days of Future Past is being scripted by Simon Kinberg, aiming for a July 18, 2014 release — excited, X-fans? Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
When the Independent Spirit Awards take place in Santa Monica on the Saturday before the Academy Awards next February, there should be plenty of A-list testosterone coursing through the event tent. The slate of nominations for the 2013 honors , which celebrate independent film, is studded with box-office friendly male actor who’ve carried studio films. And Jennifer Lawrence . Best Male Lead Jack Black ( Bernie) , Bradley Cooper ( Silver Linings Playbook ) and Matthew McConaughey ( Killer Joe ) , who’ve all starred in studio pictures, count for three of the six Best Male Lead nominations. John Hawkes ( The Sessions ) , who’s on the verge of leading-man status, Wendell Pierce ( Four ) and Thure Lindhardt ( Keep The Lights On ) round out the category. That’s a considerably more Hollywood pack than last year’s nominations, of which there were only five: The biggest studio star in that bunch was Ryan Gosling ( Drive ), whose fellow nominees were, respectively French and Mexican actors, Jean Dujardin ( The Artist ) and Demián Bichir ( A Better Life ) and Woody Harrelson ( Rampart ) and Michael Shannon ( Take Shelter ), who are best known for excellent character work. Best Female Lead The Female Acting categories are not so larded with heavy hitters, but they do include The Hunger Games star Lawrence, nominated for Best Female Lead based on her performance in Silver Linings Playbook , and Helen Hunt, who nabbed a Best Supporting Female nomination for her portrayal of a sex therapist in The Sessions . Best Supporting Male Actor The Best Supporting Male actor category also has two A-listers: Bruce Willis , for his work in Wes Anderson ‘s Moonrise Kingdom, and, nominated in his second category, McConaughey for his inspired pelvic thrusting in Magic Mike . As far as I’m concerned, Sam Rockwell, who’s nominated for Seven Psychopaths , is an A-lister, too, even if he hasn’t anchored a tentpole movie. With the indie film market growing increasingly choked with product, big-box-office actors populating independent movies — and getting honored for their work — probably isn’t going away any time soon since A-list names help draw investors and distributors to small projects. In terms of reading the Oscar tea leaves, five Spirit nominations for Moonrise Kingdom , including Best Film and Best Director, bodes well for Wes Anderson’s Academy Award nomination chances. Hawkes and Hunt’s actor nominations could provide the spark that The Sessions needs to get back into the Oscar derby. Multiple nominations for Silver Linings Playbook should intensify the film’s already golden Oscar glow, while nods to Beasts of the Southern Wild and its child star Quvenzhané Wallis are making the film look like one strong dark-horse candidate. Who wasn’t nominated for a Spirit Award is also interesting. Despite fine performances in both Hyde Park on Hudson and Moonrise Kingdom , longtime studio-star-turned-indie-darling Bill Murray got bupkis, and, though Channing Tatum got the lion’s share of the press when Magic Mike was released — in part because he produced the picture and brought his real-life experiences as a stripper to the story — his G-string came up empty. RELATED: ‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ ‘Beasts’ & ‘Keep the Lights On’ Lead Spirit Awards Nominations Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Kathryn Bigelow ’s ambitious Oscar contender Zero Dark Thirty started out as a film about the 2001 siege of Tora Bora hunting down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden , but as the Academy Award-winner told a rapt audience at the picture’s buzz-building debut in Beverly Hills on Sunday, it changed direction in one quick, fateful instant. “At about 10 o’clock at night on May 1, 2011 we realized we no longer had a project about the hunt for Osama bin Laden,” Bigelow said at a packed post-screening Q&A at the Pacific Design Center, “because he was no longer living.” Bin Laden’s death sent Bigelow and her Hurt Locker collaborator, screenwriter and journalist Mark Boal , scrambling to incorporate the update into Zero Dark Thirty , a tense semi-fictionalization of the intelligence efforts, and subsequent nighttime raid, that led to the death of bin Laden. Folding actual events and real-life figures into a decade-spanning account, Boal’s script relives the dogged, desperate, and often brutal search for bin Laden through the eyes of a female agent named Maya ( Jessica Chastain ), a fictional composite based on real women who played key roles in the circuitous, years-long operations that sniffed out bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout. Chastain, who was a lock for an Oscar nomination before Zero Dark Thirty even debuted, owns the screen as the driven workaholic agent whose tireless fixation on a needle-in-a-haystack lead ultimately proves vital to finding bin Laden. She looks a little too great doing it, too — a pillow-lipped, flame-haired beauty who manages to look luminous even when other characters are helpfully commenting that she’s rundown and haggard. (Offscreen, as in her new GQ UK cover spread, Chastain still has to play the glamour game , as most actresses do in order to vie for awards gold.) The men around Maya describe her as a “killer,” and though she struggles at first to stomach the sight of a detainee being waterboarded for intel, within a few years she’s adopted the torture tactics that made headlines out of Guantanamo. Boal’s script goes heavy on the gender politics and too light on character development, portraying Maya as a woman so devoted to her mission that she has no time for silly things like friends, love, life balance. She’s a lone strong woman in a man’s world, an awards-season narrative that pundits will predictably tether to Bigelow as they did when The Hurt Locker made its Oscar run. Still, the girl power moments are utterly satisfying; when the overlooked Maya makes her presence and contribution known in a roomful of male colleagues by barking an expletive at Tony Soprano himself (James Gandolfini as CIA head Leon Panetta), who can care that she has virtually no back story of her own?
