The former Mrs. Tom Cruise is enjoying her newfound freedom. From clothes. Katie Holmes goes topless and poses on the beach in a new ad campaign for the jewelry company IRIS, her long brown hair is blowing in the wind. There’s a diamond necklace in there somewhere, too, though we’ll forgive you if you initially missed it when you first laid eyes upon this photo: This risque ad is a far cry from anything we’ve seen from her in years … if at all. One random Katie Holmes topless scene from The Gift notwithstanding. “She is more confident than ever,” a friend of hers said recently. You won’t hear any real arguments from THG, that’s for sure. Check out more photos of the 34-year-old modeling IRIS:
Katie Holmes has got off the space ship and back to the beach….where her pushing 40 year old body….is strategically placed….to hide the scars of the birth of her Alien child….allowing us to focus on her soul-less face….and dead eyes…that we can blame Tom Cruise for stealing…and ultimately, I really like this look….it’s for some Fashion ad campaign…and it is good…
GQ Magazine has released its list of The 100 Hottest Women of the 21st Century , and Katie Holmes ‘ topless scene in The Gift (2000) nabbed “Hottest Scene in a Movie: Can’t-Believe-That-Actually-Happened Category” : “She has the same Joey Potter tics: head tilts, shoulder shrugs up, lips chew down into a lopsided grin. But then she takes off her top, revealing her un-Joey-Potter-like breasts—such exquisitely, precisely breast-like breasts, the breasts you would think of if someone said the word breasts.” More after the jump!
If you and the fam headed to the multiplex to watch one of the season’s big new releases this week , chances are you caught Tom Hooper ‘s epic weepie Les Miserables or Quentin Tarantino ‘s Django Unchained . (Or maybe the in-laws dragged you to Parental Guidance , in which case, my condolences.) We’ll get spoilery all over Django later, but for now let’s get to hashing out the answer to the question that’s been on every showtune-lover’s mind for months: Which Les Miz cast member totally nailed the live-sung suffering for the big screen (and whose warblings made us les miserables )? I’ll start: Anne Hathaway ? NAILED IT. I’ll admit I was tres apprehensive at first listen when the trailers featuring her tremulous Fantine cry-singing hit the web. Watching the whole film, however, it’s clear Hathaway and Hugh Jackman are leading a masterclass in sing-acting for the entire Les Miserables cast, and in context the breathy imperfect perfection of Hathaway’s “I Dreamed A Dream” is downright heart-wrenching. It’s been said before, but the Oscar already belongs to that hitch in her voice that hits as she’s choking on tears while wailing about her miserable prostitute life with Hooper’s camera all up in her face — one of the only performances in the film riveting and emotional enough to sustain those damned extended close-ups . Runner-up for best performance in Les Miserables goes to Jackman, who wows in Jean Valjean’s pre-bath scenes with a filthy, feral energy that I honestly didn’t think he had in him. Pacing back and forth in the bishop’s chapel during “What Have I Done?” Jackman is riveting; you can see Valjean’s confused, broken mind reeling as Jackman spits and cries out in song, and Hooper’s camera work actually fits the number. It’s a shame, then, that the nearly three-hour running time of Les Miserables suffers from Jackman fatigue by the time Valjean’s singing his umpteenth song. On second thought, I’ll give Jackman a tie for runner-up with the little kid who plays Gavroche. (His name’s Daniel Huttlestone. He’s 12. He started his career on the West End. What have you done with your life lately?) Talk about making the most out of a handful of screen minutes; I’d trade a dozen of Jackman’s blah Valjean scenes for more of the impish street urchin who fights on the front lines with the students. I’d watch Gavroche picking pockets, or scamming rich folk, or stealing hearts up and down the dirty streets of Paris. In fact, can we just make him the Han of Les Miz and give him his own Fast & Furious -style prequel where he goes on a Moonrise Kingdom -esque adventure that never ends? (Also great: Samantha Barks as Eponine , the patron saint of girls harboring unrequited life-and-death crushes on boys who are too dumb to see what’s in front of them, and Aaron Tveit AKA Tripp from Gossip Girl as Enjolras.) Now for the not-so-great performances. Let’s just say that Amanda Seyfried ‘s birdlike soprano trill is totes fine, but I daresay she was wasted in the role of Cosette, AKA The Most Boring Girl In All Of France. I can take or leave Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter as the Thenardiers, whose slapsticky numbers took some folks out of the abject misery of Les Mis but didn’t move the needle for me in either direction. Russell Crowe did himself no favors in my book with his mismatched 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts belting , but Hooper made it worse with those CG crane shots of Javert, wailing existential above the sewers in a dead-armed stance. I love me some Russell Crowe, but by the time he finally jumped to his death with a sigh of despair, I was rooting for it. Sweet, sweet relief. So, Movieliners: Did you hear the Les Miserables cast sing? Who made your heartstrings ache the hardest? Who sung the sweetest through the tears? Which cast members would you let warble their most miserable miseries in your castle on a cloud? READ MORE ABOUT LES MISERABLES : ‘Les Misérables’ Hits High Notes, But Also Skitters Great Moments In ‘Les Miserables’ Mania: Katie Holmes Sings ‘On My Own’ On ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Early Reaction: Oscar Race Heats Up As NYC Screening Of ‘Les Miserables’ Prompts Cheers & Tears Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
With this season’s Les Misérables mania in swing, many a moviegoer has been obsessing over those familiar songs and weepy French revolutionary dramatics in anticipation of the Christmas Oscar pic. I’ve been thinking a lot about the classic Les Mis tune “On My Own,” about one girl’s unrequited love for a boy who loves another — but not as sung by Eponine about Marius and his beloved little songbird Cosette. I’m talking Joey Potter’s Miss Windjammer rendition from season one of Dawson’s Creek . If you were a teenage girl growing up in the late ’90s, chances are you watched the seminal WB series. And if you had any sense at all, you identified not with wannabe Spielberg Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek), adorably feckless Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson), or the hot-but-troubled new girl in town Jen Lindley ( Michelle Williams ), but with the tomboyish girl-next-door, Joey Potter ( Katie Holmes ). So when Joey reluctantly entered the local Miss Windjammer beauty contest (for college tuition money!) and warbled the Les Miserables ballad “On My Own” — prompting stupid Dawson to see past Jen and notice Joey for the first time ever — you LOVED EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF IT. Joey was the Eponine of Capeside, Massachusetts, and Dawson was her Marius, and this Eponine was finally getting her man. I’ll admit with no small shred of embarrassment: I’ve probably seen Joey sing “On My Own” dozens of times in my life. As soon the Internet invented YouTube, I found it and watched it again. (There was that one lost evening when I fell down a k-hole of Joey-Pacey YouTube videos, but that’s another story.) I’d never seen Les Miserables onstage, so Dawson’s Creek marked my introduction to the soulful, wistful “On My Own” — and in the hazy euphoria of nostalgia, despite Dawson’s terrible ’90s mane and Joey’s reedy baby voice, I still think back on it fondly. Clearly Holmes doesn’t hold a candle to a performer like Samantha Barks, the professional West End veteran who plays Eponine and absolutely slays “On My Own” in Tom Hooper’s film adaptation. But the reason why both versions work — Barks as Eponine in the familiar Les Mis tradition, and Holmes as Joey singing to Capeside’s finest — is that they both hit that Some Kind of Wonderful sweet spot. Les Mis the musical was written over a decade before Dawson’s Creek and the John Hughes gem, and Victor Hugo’s novel 130 years before, but they share the same essential DNA: The overlooked girl-next-door pining for the boy who’s too blind to see, who loves him so much she’ll help him woo the girl of his dreams — even if it kills her. This is, incidentally, why Some Kind Of Wonderful is so great; Watts gets her happy ending . And a pair of diamond earrings. Read more on Les Misérables , in theaters December 25 : Early Reaction: Oscar Race Heats Up As NYC Screening Of ‘Les Miserables’ Prompts Cheers & Tears Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Fantastic Fest is already halfway done here in Austin, and Monday night the best of the fest were honored at the Fantastic Fest Awards . It’s the only awards ceremony in existence (certainly the only one we’ve heard of) where the winners have to chug a beer before they can accept their award…except for horror category judge Barbara Crampton , who chugged wine, and comedy judge Doug Benson, who smoked a bong. Two of this year’s big winners were also two of the most provocative and nudity-filled features of the entire festival: Sweeping the horror categories this year with awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, AND Best Picture was Here Comes the Devil (2012), director Adri
Hollywood.TV is your source for all the latest celebrity news, gossip and videos of your favorite stars! bit.ly – Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com – Become a Fan! Twitter.com – Follow Us! Amanda Bynes is being charged in connection with two alleged hit-and-run car accidents. The charges are related to crashes on April 10 and Aug 4 and Amanda faces a possible sentence of six months in jail for each count, if convicted. Kanye West is proud of his girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s sex tape and even wrote a song to prove it. The rapper’s new song “Clique” Includes a reference to the infamous film, with the lyric “Eat breakfast at Gucci. My girl a superstar all from a home movie.” Katie Holmes is the first ever face of Bobbi Brown cosmetics. Neither the actress nor the makeup company would confirm the news but landing the cosmetics deal would be another sign that Katie, who is set to debut her clothing line at New York’s Fashion Week, is a rising star in the beauty industry, Hollywood.TV is the global leader in capturing celebrity breaking news as it happens. We cover all the major Hollywood events including The Golden Globes, The Oscars, The Screen Actors Guild Awards, The Grammy’s, The Emmy’s and the American Music Awards, as well as all the red carpet movie premiers in Los Angeles and New York. HTV is on the streets 24/7, at all the industry events and invited by the stars to cover their every move in Hollywood, New York and Miami. Hollywood.TV is currently the third most viewed …
The Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce doesn’t mean they’re not both loving and committed parents to their daughter, as the couple continues to show. It was father-daughter bonding time as Tom took his adorable little girl Suri Cruise to the Magic Kingdom itself, Disney World in Orlando this week. Here’s a fan photo taken of the duo at the park … Tom and Katie’s divorce, which was settled out of court before any kind of nasty legal war could break up, promises him “meaningful and significant contact” with six-year-old Suri Cruise despite her living with her mom. He got it last month when they emotionally reunited in NYC, then again in Florida this week with the Magic Carpets of Aladdin and the Jungle Cruise. Here’s hoping this continues to work out for the best.
In the latest installment of One-Sheet Wonder , a column going deep on the best, worst, weirdest and other milestones of contemporary movie-poster art, Movieline takes a look at the new poster for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master . — Ed. The Master , Paul Thomas Anderson’s enigmatic follow-up to There Will Be Blood , has been trailed by speculation and assumption for months — Is it about Scientology? Is Philip Seymour Hoffman portraying L. Ron Hubbard in a biopic capacity? — and every question has been met with denials and mystery. But each new marketing piece sheds more light on what we’ll get. After two beautiful , beguiling teaser trailers, a beautiful, beguiling one-sheet for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master debuted today over at Ain’t It Cool News . But like the clips before it, the poster tells us almost nothing about the movie. (Or do they?) The first trailer was peppered with Scientology-ish personality questions, and this poster seems based on an abstraction of an e-meter, the device used in Scientology auditing. The close-up of a barreled piece of silver metal seems like an unfinished soda can. But take a look at the tubes in this photo (pictured right) and it’s not a far leap to see the poster as a macro view of one of those e-meter tubes. But then what’s that dirty, flat-champagne-like liquid draining out of the poster (notice the drops at the top)? It could reference Hubbard’s Naval background and his life on a yacht, and there’s a vague nautical element to the fonts. Or it could refer to the flushing of alcohol that comes with the Scientology auditing process. Whatever the case, it creates a nice refraction in the word “MASTER,” bisecting it and putting the halves increasingly off kilter as you go from left to right, a reflection of the schism hinted at in the second trailer (” Just say something that’s true! “). This probably won’t be the only poster for The Master , but don’t expect a second one-sheet to bathe the plot in sunlight. There Will Be Blood had two domestic one-sheets, and while the teaser was far more engaging than the final art neither gave the game away. Time will tell whether The Master follows suit, but like with TWBB the mystery surrounding the film — encapsulated in this excellent first poster — makes the wait to see it interminable. Dante A. Ciampaglia is a writer, editor and photographer in New York. You can find him on Twitter , Tumblr , and, occasionally, his blog .
Also in Thursday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs, Breck Eisner is set to direct a live-action pic for Relativity and Hasbro. Specialty distributor Kino Lorber teams with Hulu for a portion of its titles; Australian thriller heads to the U.S. and all that rain has brought out the masses in U.K. theaters. Breck Eisner to Direct Stretch Armstrong Eisner ( The Crazies , Sahara ) will direct the live-action film, said developer Relativity. The company has partnered with Hasbro on the project which has a targeted April, 2014 release. The story will be a “gritty actioner introducing the character of Lucas Armstrong and the life-or-death consequences he will face after undergoing a transformation granting him superhuman abilities.” Specialty Distributor Teams with Hulu for Art House & Docs Kino Lorber Films is curating select titles from its library on the ad-supported Hulu website as well as the Hulu Plus subscription service beginning today. 35 features and shorts ranging from classic, foreign, documentary and American independents will be available through the service. Australian Thriller Wake In Fright Heads to U.S. Drafthouse Films will release the feature in the States. Directed by Ted Kotcheff ( Rambo: First Blood ), the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. Around the ‘net… Katie Holmes Gets Hitched to Broadway New New Yorker Katie Holmes will star in Theresa Rebecks’ new play Dead Accounts , which will open this fall. Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien will direct the film, in which Holmes will play the role of Lorna in the play that centers on corporate greed, small town values and whether family will always accept you, Deadline reports . Kenneth Branagh Joins Jack Ryan He’s already set to direct the Paramount movie, but now Branagh will go in front of the camera to play the film’s villain, Viktor Stazov, a financial genius who masterminds the destruction of the U.S. economy, THR reports . Surprise: UK Wet Summer Sees Jump at the Box Office IMAX cinemas and chain Odeon, which sells one-third of all tickets in the United Kingdom, all had jumps in ticket sales which have been attributed in part to unusually wet weather there this summer. Outdoor festivals have had the opposite experience, The Guardian reports .
