While his mom showed at New York Fashion Week, Brooklyn Beckham attended Universal Music Group's 2016 GRAMMY after party with Hailee Steinfeld and Kristen Chenowith. Inside the show, Selena Gomez cheered on friend Tayalor Swift, who scooped up a few Grammys for her album, 1989. See what else your favorite stars were up to in the sightings below. 1. Brooklyn Beckham: Universal Music Group’s 2016 GRAMMY after party Brooklyn Beckham attends the Universal Music Group’s 2016 GRAMMY after party at The Theatre At The Ace Hotel on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. 2. Taylor Swift: 58th GRAMMY Awards Press Room Grammy winner Taylor Swift (in Atelier Versace) posed with her awards in the press room at the The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. 3. The Queen: Final Awards Reception for Gold Service Scholarship The Queen, as patron of the Gold Service Scholarship, attends the Final Awards Reception at Claridge’s hotel in London on February 16th, 2016. 4. Hailee Steinfeld: Universal Music Group’s 2016 GRAMMY Hailee Steinfeld attends Universal Music Group’s 2016 GRAMMY after party at The Theatre At The Ace Hotel on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. 5. Selena Gomez: 58th GRAMMY Awards Selena Gomez (in Calvin Klein) at the The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles City. 6. Colin Firth, Laura Linney and Jude Law: ‘Genius’ Berlin Premiere Colin Firth, Laura Linney and Jude Law attend the ‘Genius’ premiere during the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Berlinale Palace on February 16, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. View Slideshow
It doesn't get much worse than having an extramarital affair. This holds true whether you are an actor, a professional athlete or a grocery store clerk. But a few celebrities have gone ahead and taken that extra awful step… by allegedly having an affair with their family's nanny! As you can see below, these stars range in talent and cover all industries. But all sort of suck if the accusations are true: 1. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger clearly comes in first (or last, depending on how you look at it). He cheated on Maria Shriver AND had a child out of wedlock with his nanny/maid. 2. Ben Affleck Ben Affleck’s rep denies this rumor. But multiple outlets have claimed he started sleeping with nanny Christine Ouzounian while separated from Jennifer Garner. 3. Jude Law Jude Law (the father of five with three different women) admitted to a fling with nanny Daisy Wright in 2005. It ended his relationship with Sienna Miller. 4. Robin Williams The late comedian’s second wife, Marsha Garces Williams, actually worked as a nanny for Williams and his first wife, Valerie Velardi, when their son Zak was a toddler. 5. Ethan Hawke Ethan Hawke did at least end up marrying his nanny. But not before cheating on Uma Thurman with her in 2003. 6. Mick Jagger While married to model Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger allegedly had a romp in the sack with a nanny named Claire, who was employed to take care of the couple’s youngest son. View Slideshow
Since checking out of rehab two weeks ago, Teen Mom 2’s Leah Messer has taken on a shocking amount of responsibility on the home front. Not only has Messer reunited with her three daughters, but she has revved up her romance with her much older personal trainer, T.R. Dues . Moreover, she is taking care of his kids (he has two by Mandy Winnell ), bringing the grand total of children in her home to five at the moment. Leah Messer has five-year-old twins, Ali and Aleeah, by Corey Simms, and another two-year-old daughter Adalynn, with Jeremy Calvert. She is divorced from both men. That’s an enourmous amount to ask of a single mom, but she is also now playing the role to T.R. Dues’ sons Tyshawn, 8, and Angelo, 4, The mother of those boys, Winnell, is undergoing medical treatment, sources tell Radar , upping the load on T.R. – and by extension, Leah. “Mandy is dealing with health issues, so T.R. and Leah are going to be taking the boys for the near future,” an insider explains to the site. Messer and Winnell, 28, already clashed over her role in the boys’ life once before, but were planning to meet to get to know each other. Those plans have been postponed in light of Winnell’s illness, and family, friends and fans of the Teen Mom 2 star are starting to worry. Before treatment, Messer was “emotionally disturbed,” a source said, and rumors of prescription drug addition have long followed her. “She would often be sobbing in a state of panic,” the source adds, and though she has denied having mental breakdowns, this is clear: The fragile two-time divorcee, 23, is somehow in a spot many would consider more precarious than before Leah Messer went to rehab .
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat. But cheaters do make good celebrity gossip fodder, which is the reason we've covered so many of them in depth on our website. Below, we rundown a number of known bad boyfriends and husbands (from golfers to Presidents; actors to reporters) and we send one simple message to them all, courtesy of their significant others: GOOD RIDDANCE! 1. Scott Disick We always knew Scott Disick was a drinker. But it came out in the summer of 2015 that he’s also a cheater! Good riddance, dude! 2. Tiger Woods Really, everyone else on this list is just playing for second place. 3. Jesse James Jesse James cheated on Sandra Bullock. But she eventually found his replacement: a little guy named Oscar. 4. Dean McDermott Tori Spelling is the mother of his kids, but Dean McDermott has admitted to having another woman call him “daddy.” 5. Ryan Phillippe Ryan Phillippe cheated on Reese Witherspoon with Abbie Cornish. Who breaks the heart of America’s Sweetheart?!? 6. Ashton Kutcher We do not approve of Ashton Kutcher cheating on Demi Moore with a random blonde. But it did eventually land him Mila Kunis, so… View Slideshow
What begins as a barbed satire of our pill-popping, self-medicating society morphs into something intriguingly different in Side Effects . Steven Soderbergh’s elegantly coiled puzzler spins a tale of clinical depression and psychiatric malpractice into an absorbing, cunningly unpredictable entertainment that, like much of his recent work, closely observes how a particular subset of American society operates in a needy, greedy, paranoid and duplicitous age. Discriminating arthouse audiences not turned off by the antidepressant-heavy subject matter should be held shrink-rapt by what Soderbergh, after years of flirting with retirement, has said will be his last picture “for a long time.” Establishing a mood of grim foreboding with a brief glimpse of a blood-spattered domestic scene, the film rewinds three months to the incident that sets things in motion. Emily Taylor ( Rooney Mara ), a New Yorker in her mid-20s, awaits the prison release of her husband, Martin ( Channing Tatum ), a former business exec who has just finished serving four years for his involvement in an insider-trading scheme. But the couple’s happy reunion is complicated not only by Martin’s period of readjustment and unemployment, but also by Emily’s ongoing struggles with anxiety and depression. The story is thus immediately rooted in an easily recognizable and, for some, relatable world of financial difficulty and pharmaceutical overreliance. After Emily’s condition declines to the point of attempting self-harm, she sees a psychiatrist, Dr. Jonathan Banks ( Jude Law) , who puts her on a try-this-try-that regimen of drugs that include Prozac, Zoloft and Ablixa. The names of these antidepressants and their assorted side effects are rattled off with cheeky proficiency in the well-researched script by Scott Z. Burns (“Contagion,” “The Informant!”), and soon Emily starts to manifest the byproducts of so much medication, including nausea, a heightened libido and a disturbing habit of sleepwalking. Soderbergh’s sinuous HD camerawork (done under his usual pseudonym, Peter Andrews) maintains an unnervingly intimate focus on Emily in these early passages, dominated by breakdowns and consulting sessions. Yet even in intense closeups that enable Mara to vividly register Emily’s panic, fear and vaguely suicidal impulses, the direction has a certain cool-toned detachment that keeps the film from becoming a wholly subjective portrait of mental instability. That distanced quality persists even when Emily’s behavior, under the influence of Ablixa, takes a shocking turn for the worst. At this point, the dramatic perspective shifts to Banks, who suddenly finds himself professionally compromised as a provocative question comes to the fore: If a patient is not responsible for actions taken under the influence of a powerful drug, does the liability shift to the doctor who prescribed it? But as Banks launches himself into an increasingly obsessive quest to clear his name, leading him into private conversations with Emily’s former therapist, Dr. Victoria Siebel ( Catherine Zeta-Jones ), the peculiar feeling persists that not everything about the case may be what it seems. The very title of Side Effects — a suggestion of unintended, undesired consequences that distract from the matter at hand — provides a clue as to the level of narrative misdirection Soderbergh and Burns are up to. Suffice to say that what the film is actually about, and the specific social malaise being diagnosed, suddenly seem to shift beneath the characters’ feet, as the story turns its attention from chemical dependencies and shaky medical ethics to the dark recesses of the human mind. The rapid-fire twists, reversals and flashbacks that crowd the third act may strain plausibility to the breaking point, but by the end, viewers are likely to feel as though they’ve been craftily but not unfairly manipulated. The casting of Soderbergh alums Law, Zeta-Jones and Tatum lends the picture a somewhat valedictory feel, and if Side Effects is indeed the final chapter of at least one phase of the director’s career, it gets the job done in modest but assured fashion. Thematically, this efficient genre piece feels entirely of a piece with Soderbergh’s prior work; no less than Magic Mike and The Girlfriend Experience , it’s keenly invested in the material question of how individuals operate in an economy that leaves them with fewer and fewer honest options. The film’s careful attention to the details of its psychiatric milieu compels fascination above and beyond the characters, and indeed, Soderbergh’s typical disinterest in conventional audience identification has rarely been more pronounced. Mara’s chilly yet vulnerable quality, exploited so effectively in her films with David Fincher, keeps the viewer at a sympathetic distance; Law makes Banks seem weaselly and pompous even when he assumes the role of protagonist; and Zeta-Jones, as usual, plays her part with a slyly seductive allure. Of all the actors, Ann Dowd ( Compliance ) rings the sole notes of earnest emotion in a small role as Emily’s mother-in-law. Editing is sharp and precise, and Thomas Newman’s churning score amps up the story’s intensity. Expertly chosen locations and Howard Cummings’ production design create an offhandedly diverse snapshot of New York, ranging from a high-security mental institution to a table at Le Cirque where Dr. Banks and his colleagues talk shop. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones were all on the red carpet for the premiere of Side Effects in New York City, and I asked them what it was like making a modern Hitchcock film. “It pleases me to hear you say ‘modern Hitchcock film’ because that was our hope, to do something like that” said Hollywood mega-producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. “It’s a tradition that’s been ignored a lot in the last decade.” Rooney Mara plays Emily Taylor, a young woman whose world unravels when the anti-anxiety drug she is prescribed has some unexpected side effects, and the actress told me that signing on for the psychological thriller was an easy decision thanks to Steven Soderbergh’s involvement. “A director is the most important thing” Mara noted about choosing a project. What side effects can audiences expect after seeing the movie? Screenwriter Scott Z Burns hopes “the desire to see it two or three times” is one of them. That’s right, Side Effects is meant to be addictive. Check out my full red carpet interview below: Follow Grace Randolph on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Wednesday morning’s round of five stories you should know also include a new thriller role for Maria Bello. Skyfall momentum continues in the U.S. box office, passing a threshold. And on the heels of Hollywood recognition, a director’s foreign-language pic is heading to the U.S. 1. Channing Tatum Named Sexiest Man Alive for 2012 How could Tatum not win the 2012 Sexiest Crown after starring in and being the creative force behind box office stripper success Magic Mike ? People magazine gave Tatum the 2012 title. “My first thought was, ‘Y’all are messing with me”I told [my wife] Jenna after we’d been in the bathtub washing our dogs because they’d gotten skunked.” People reports . 2. Jack Nicholson Tapped for Robert Downey Jr.’s The Judge Warner Bros is hoping to court the very picky actor to play Downey’s father. The project will star Downey as a successful attorney who returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral only to discover that his estranged and Alzheimer’s-stricken father, the town’s judge, is the murder suspect. The man sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before. Nicholson is not a shoe-in. He has made only three movies since 2003, THR reports . 3. Maria Bello Set for James Wan Thriller The story revolves around the aftermath of a horrific massacre: five college students, brutally murdered inside a decrepit, abandoned home. Fresh on the scene, detective Mark Lewis and the police department’s psychologist, Dr. Elizabeth Klein (Bello), question one of the few survivors who explains they were amateur ghost-hunters, seeking out paranormal phenomenon at the abandoned house, believed to be haunted. Will Canon ( Brotherhood ) will direct the pic from producer James Wan’s concept. Wan co-created the successful Saw and Insidious franchises. 4. Skyfall Crosses $100M in the U.S. The latest James Bond has been a box office hit overseas and it’s seen its fortunes continue Stateside. It took in $11.3 million on Veterans Day combined with $90 million over the Friday – Sunday weekend, giving it a $101.9 million total. The global come as of Sunday was $518.6 million, Deadline reports . 5. The Deep Heads to U.S. Theaters U.S. rights to Baltasar Kormakur’s The Deep will head to Focus Features. His film Reykjavik-Rotterdam is being re-made into Contraband starring Mark Wahlberg and he is currently directing 2 Guns starring Wahlberg and Denzel Washington. The Deep is Iceland’s foreign-language Oscar submission, Deadline reports .
At a time when General David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer has become a media obsession, Leo Tolstoy’s 19th-century tale of love, adultery and aristocratic downfall, Anna Karenina , is more relevant than ever. And yet, with more than two-dozen film and TV adaptations of the novel in existence, director Joe Wright faced a daunting challenge: bringing a fresh perspective to the classic story. The gamble is whether its unique twist will translate into Oscar nominations. The sumptuous but unorthodox path he took — depicting pivotal scenes as if they were taking part on a theater stage — was akin to “jumping off a cliff” says Keira Knightley , who plays the movie’s title character, an alluring Russian aristocrat who breaks entrenched societal taboos and embarks on a torrid love affair with the affluent soldier, Count Vronsky. “I don’t know that we did know it would work,” said Knightley. “With Anna Karenina , it’s been done so many times before and there was a sense that if you’re going to tell this story again, you might as well do something that’s out there.” “Out there” includes depicting scenes of the titled heroine (or anti-heroine) on a stage as her marriage and social status disintegrates and she becomes the subject of societal scorn. “The worst thing we could do is fail,” said Knightley. “It was a constant conversation between us to make that balance work. But everyone was so deeply into it.” Wright, who directed the film from a screenplay adaptation by Tom Stoppard, decided just weeks before the shoot to re-work the film with the stage component. Knightely said the change threw the cast, which includes Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, into a bit of a frenzy. But she added that the group was determined to give it their all — even if there was a chance it wouldn’t work. “[Joe Wright] demands 110%. He demands complete obsession and that’s exactly what he gives back. It makes him an extraordinarily magical person to work with and frightening to work with because it’s not a job in which you go home from. It’s everything from the time that you’re making it, and I think that’s one of the reasons people said ‘let’s do it’ with this concept.” She added: “He’s one of those people you go with and say, ‘let’s jump.'” Getting to know Anna Karenina — the character and novel — was also an evolution for Knightley who had a completely different take on the book after re-reading it before production began. The first time she read it as a “sweeping romance,” but the second time she wondered if Tolstoy despised Anna. “I remember thinking [most recently] — and people will disagree with me on this — that Tolstoy hates her and I’m not sure that she’s the heroine. I think she’s the anti-heroine,” said Knightley. “She is the whole of Babylon — she’s the person to be judged. But then [Tolstoy] does at times understand her and is completely in love with her. And that’s the dichotomy of Anna and what has made her an object of fascination for so many years,” Knightley explained. “You’re not really sure what to feel about Anna. She is deceitful, manipulative and needy. But she is also wonderful, lovable, and full of energy and love. She’s all those things.” Knightley also observed that Anna is a character that makes one take a look at their moral universe, and the actress said she took great pains to keep her from coming off as a gilded cliché. “She is a creature that makes you look at yourself because you are judging this person, but then you think, ‘Do I have a right to do that?'” said Knightley. “The people we hurt the most are the people we love the most. And that’s what she does. The difficulty in playing her is you don’t want to simplify that. The easy thing to do would be to make her the victim and Karenina the bad guy and I didn’t want to do just that.” When the film comes out this Friday, there will likely be another dichotomy: Audiences and critics who love the unconventional stage settings interspersed with more-or-less more traditional linear storytelling and those who’ll object. But Knightley is pleased with what will hit the screen. “I think it’s absolutely extraordinary. I haven’t seen anything like it. I think it’s always going to be something that some people won’t like, but I’m very proud of it. If you’re talking about cinema as an event – it is certainly an event. You only see naturalism in film at the moment. Whether you think it’s over-stylized or not, you have to celebrate the fact that it’s so completely different. And I really love it. And I love how daring Joe has been and I’m very glad I jumped off the cliff with him.” Follow Brian Brooks on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
The stakes are higher and the villains far more treacherous (Moriarty!), but everything in Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows is of a piece with the 2009 predecessor that introduced Robert Downey Jr. ‘s turn as the titular OCD turn of the century sleuth. For director Guy Ritchie it’s felt like one long evolution from the days of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels ; now, at the helm of his biggest film to date — which features some of the most innovative action sequences of the season — Ritchie is firmly in his wheelhouse. As he told Movieline recently in Los Angeles, “I enjoy playing in a bigger sandbox… and I enjoy having powerful friends to help me manifest a vision.”
After a weekend of speculation, guesses and second-guesses about which top-secret “work in progress by a master filmmaker” would in fact screen tonight as a last-minute addition to the New York Film Festival, Martin Scorsese confirmed today’s reports by taking the stage at Avery Fisher Hall in Manhattan and introducing his family-friendly 3-D opus Hugo to a loving hometown crowd.
