WENN Though quite a few celebs like to share every detail about their lives, there are still some stars who like to keep their private lives very private.
Since The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now slated for a December 14 release, other studios’ movies are politely rescheduling to avoid that box office bonanza. Life of Pi , the Ang Lee adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, starring newcomer Suraj Sharma, Tobey Maguire, and Gerard Depardieu, is now scheduled for a Dec. 21, 2011 premiere. It should be the greatest movie about being stuck in a boat with a Bengal Tiger since Hitchcock’s Lifeboat , where Tallulah Bankhead almost mauls all the other passengers. [ /Film ]
The good news: Jessica Biel got her chance to work with Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky ! The bad news: It was for a Revlon commercial about lash-plumping mascara. And, well, it’s no Black Swan ; now there’s a movie that knew its way around a make-up brush. Watch Biel pout and bat her lashes in soft focus in Aronofsky’s least-daring work to date after the jump.
X-Men: First Class wants to be five movies at once, and it occasionally succeeds at being a few of them: One minute it’s a stylish James Bond-style retro pleaser, the next a bitter-edged revenge melodrama, the next your boilerplate “embrace individuality” empowerment brief. It is also, of course, a movie based on a comic-book franchise — in this case, Marvel’s long-running, multi-tentacled X-Men saga — and for that reason alone, it comes with a million other expectations attached. I don’t know what director in his right mind would want to take on such a project, but I admire Matthew Vaughn for trying.