Hoo boy. The late-summer movie bottleneck has caught up with Hollywood, relegating this weekend’s trio of new wide releases to the bottom of the top five at the box office. Above them, a pair of leggy holdovers scrap for the top spot, with the ladies of The Help putting some distance between themselves and James Franco’s tenacious Rise of the Planet of the Apes . Your clinically lethargic Friday box office is here.
When The Fighter premiered last year, Lionsgate was sitting on Warrior , another “fighter” film about the deeply rooted rivalry between two working-class brothers. Directed by Gavin O’C onnor ( Miracle ), the action drama features burgeoning stars Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy (both of whom force fed themselves chicken and trained brutally to attain realistically rock hard MMA physiques) and Nick Nolte as their recovering alcoholic father who so desperately seeks their forgiveness. In anticipation of this gritty Sept. 9 release, O’C onnor and his stars Nolte, Edgerton, Hardy and Jennifer Morrison gathered Friday at the Los Angeles press conference to discuss Warrior , their upcoming big budget projects ( Dark Knight Rises and The Great Gatsby ) and in the case of Nolte, Katharine Hepburn’s affinity for drunks and the enduring social message of his ’80s Eddie Murphy comedy 48 Hours . Click through for the revelations.
In a blog entry on Monday, the former DJ Jamie Yeo wrote that she accepted Thorsten Nolte#39;s proposal on her 33rd birthday at a Meiji-era shrine, and slipped on a 1.5-carat diamond he had specially prepared for the occasion. ESPN Star Sports presenter Jamie Yeo got engaged to her boyfriend, Englishman Thorsten Nolte, on April 17 when they were on a holiday in Tokyo. “I said yes. Of course I did. I had found myself a man that most girls search for their entire lives… I would do anything fo
Filed under: Celebrity Justice , Exclusives TMZ has learned Nick Nolte’s son was arrested for suspicion of DUI and possession of a controlled substance yesterday in Santa Monica. Law enforcement sources tell us Brawley King Nolte — who starred as the kidnapped kid in “Ransom” back in the day ..