Yeah right Keri . Timbaland Says Keri Apologizes To Beyonce On Track We all know Keri was coming for Key Bey in that song and got dragged on Twitter for it. What’s the point of trying to backtrack now? Guess dissing King Bey has got her thirsty for another hit because we haven’t heard any good music from Ms. Keri baby since. According to Revolt TV “I got this one song I did with Keri on my album called Sorry and Keri actually tells the story about the whole Beyonce thing and how she was sorry about it because she really wasn’t talking about her but other people [created the hype].” The comment is around the 1:25 mark. Check out the video below: Do you think Keri is full of isht?
Amanda Seyfried and her “Epic” co-star Colin Farrell walked a green carpet for the animated film’s premiere on Saturday in New York. Epic tells the story of …
James Franco is emerging as a true Hollywood Renaissance Man. His first major directorial effort, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel As I Lay Dying , will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival later this month. Check out the first As I Lay Dying trailer below: As I Lay Dying Trailer The film tells the story of a Southern family dealing with the death of their Matriarch, while trying to follow the funeral requests set about in her will. Franco stars in the film along with Danny McBride, Logan Marshall-Green, and Tim Blake Nelson.
Last week, Hulk Hogan won a restraining order against Gawker Media, as a judge ordered the company to remove all material related to the Hulk Hogan sex tape from its site. There’s just one hiccup: Gawker refuses to do so. The company has taken down a one-minute excerpt from the half hour video, but a 1,400-word narrative about the sex tape remains. Moreover, Gawker linked to another website that hosts the footage, as editor John Cook explained why: We publish all manner of stories here. Some are serious, some are frivolous, some are dumb. I am not going to make a case that the future of the Republic rises or falls on the ability of the general public to watch a video of Hulk Hogan f***ing his friend’s ex-wife. But the Constitution does unambiguously accord us the right to publish true things about public figures. And Campbell’s order requiring us to take down not only a very brief, highly edited video excerpt from a 30-minute Hulk Hogan f***ing session but also a lengthy written account from someone who had watched the entirety of that fucking session, is risible and contemptuous of centuries of First Amendment jurisprudence. In response, Hogan is moving forward with a motion to show cause why Gawker shouldn’t be held in civil contempt for openly disobeying these legal orders. The former WWE champion previously settled a separate lawsuit with Bubba the Love Sponge and his wife/sex tape co-star Heather Clem outside of court.
Olga Kurlenko as Head Mistress? Say no more, when’s the premiere? The Oblivion actress has joined the cast of the Vampire Academy adaptation as Kirova, the head mistress of the academy. Vampire Academy is a coming-of-age fantasy romance that tells the story of vampires in high school, adapted from a best-selling Young Adult novel series. So… Twilight ? No! Vampire Academy ! The story centers around a girl named Rose Hathaway, a half-vampire half-human called a Dhampir. She attends an Academy to learn how to properly use her abilities and take her place in the world. So… Harry Potter ? NO!!!! VAMPIRE ACADEMY! Zoey Deutch is signed on to play Rose, with Lucy Fry and Danila Kozlovski also starring. No production or release schedule has been announced.
The trailer for the new horror/thriller In Fear has arrived! It look sufficiently creepy, with a definite psychological bent. Take a look: In Fear Trailer The film follows a couple, played by Alice Englert and Iain De Caestecker, who lose their way on a British road while traveling to a music festival. As darkness and isolation set in, their primal fears and evils begin to emerge. Jeremy Lovering directs the film, which opens on August 30 in the UK. No American release date has yet been set.
Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep are in final negotiations to star in Disney’s adaptation of the Broadway musical Into the Woods . The musical tells the story of a baker and his wife, who must reverse a witch’s curse in order to have a child. Along their journey, the meet several characters from famous Brother’s Grimm fairy tales, including Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rapunzel. Streep would play the evil witch, with Depp presumably up for the role of the baker. Into the Woods first ran on Broadway in 1987, with music and lyrics by Steven Sondheim. Rob Marshall will direct the film.
Unless you count the viral video cat named Lil Bub , the winners of the Tribeca Film Festival ‘s annual awards ceremony are not a glitzy lot, despite the event’s reputation as a celebrity-studded affair. Lil Bub & Friendz , Andy Capper and Juliette Eisner’s documentary about the walleyed cat with the perpetually protruding tongue and other famous Internet felines won the Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film , which was chosen by presumably human visitors to the festival’s website. Other winners announced at the awards ceremony at the Conrad New York Hotel on Thursday, included Dan Krauss’ The Kill Team . The documentary about a rogue group of U.S. soldiers charged with murdering Afghan civilians, took the festival’s Best Documentary Feature award. Here’s a complete list of winners: The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature: The Rocket ; director: Kim Mordaunt (Australia) Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film: Sitthiphon Disamoe in The Rocket (Australia) Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film: Veerle Baetens as Elise Vandevelde in The Broken Circle Breakdown ; director, Felix van Groeningen (Netherlands, Belgium) Best Cinematography in a Narrative Feature Film: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen , for Before Snowfall; director: Hisham Zaman (Germany, Norway) Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature Film: The Broken Circle Breakdown , written by Carl Joos and Felix van Groeningen Best New Narrative Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais , for Whitewash (Canada) Best Documentary Feature: The Kill Team; director: Dan Krauss (USA) Best Editing in a Documentary Feature: Let the Fire Burn , edited by Nels Bangerter ; director: Jason Osder (USA) Best New Documentary Director: Sean Dunne , for Oxyana (USA) Best Narrative Short: The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars ; direct0r: Edoardo Ponti (Italy) Best Documentary Short: Coach ; director: Bess Kargman (USA) Student Visionary Award: Life Doesn’t Frighten Me , director: Stephen Dunn (Canada) Bombay Sapphire Award for Transmedia: Sandy Storyline , created by Rachel Falcone , Laura Gottesdiener , and Michael Premo (USA) Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film: Lil Bub & Friendz (chosen by visitors to the festival’s official website); directors: Andy Capper and Juliette Eisner (USA) Tribeca Online Festival Best Short Film (chosen by visitors to the festival’s official website) : A Short Film About Guns ; director: Minos Papas (USA, UK) Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Unless you count the viral video cat named Lil Bub , the winners of the Tribeca Film Festival ‘s annual awards ceremony are not a glitzy lot, despite the event’s reputation as a celebrity-studded affair. Lil Bub & Friendz , Andy Capper and Juliette Eisner’s documentary about the walleyed cat with the perpetually protruding tongue and other famous Internet felines won the Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film , which was chosen by presumably human visitors to the festival’s website. Other winners announced at the awards ceremony at the Conrad New York Hotel on Thursday, included Dan Krauss’ The Kill Team . The documentary about a rogue group of U.S. soldiers charged with murdering Afghan civilians, took the festival’s Best Documentary Feature award. Here’s a complete list of winners: The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature: The Rocket ; director: Kim Mordaunt (Australia) Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film: Sitthiphon Disamoe in The Rocket (Australia) Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film: Veerle Baetens as Elise Vandevelde in The Broken Circle Breakdown ; director, Felix van Groeningen (Netherlands, Belgium) Best Cinematography in a Narrative Feature Film: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen , for Before Snowfall; director: Hisham Zaman (Germany, Norway) Best Screenplay for a Narrative Feature Film: The Broken Circle Breakdown , written by Carl Joos and Felix van Groeningen Best New Narrative Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais , for Whitewash (Canada) Best Documentary Feature: The Kill Team; director: Dan Krauss (USA) Best Editing in a Documentary Feature: Let the Fire Burn , edited by Nels Bangerter ; director: Jason Osder (USA) Best New Documentary Director: Sean Dunne , for Oxyana (USA) Best Narrative Short: The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars ; direct0r: Edoardo Ponti (Italy) Best Documentary Short: Coach ; director: Bess Kargman (USA) Student Visionary Award: Life Doesn’t Frighten Me , director: Stephen Dunn (Canada) Bombay Sapphire Award for Transmedia: Sandy Storyline , created by Rachel Falcone , Laura Gottesdiener , and Michael Premo (USA) Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film: Lil Bub & Friendz (chosen by visitors to the festival’s official website); directors: Andy Capper and Juliette Eisner (USA) Tribeca Online Festival Best Short Film (chosen by visitors to the festival’s official website) : A Short Film About Guns ; director: Minos Papas (USA, UK) Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
I’ve been sold on Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace movie Behind The Candelabra since the trailer for the HBO movie hit the web earlier this month. But if you need further convincing, the filmmaker drops some interesting details about the movie in a free-ranging discussion with his younger, gay brother Charley Soderbergh in Out magazine . Behind the Candelabra, which premieres on HBO on May 26, tells the story of the flamboyant pianist’s love affair with the much younger Scott Thorson. Michael Douglas and Matt Damon play the star-crossed lovers, and the trailer, which I’ve posted below, makes the movie look like an over-the-top romp through the back pages of Las Vegas-style opulence. But it’s also reassuring to read Soderbergh tell his lookalike brother, who’s an Atlanta-based hair stylist, that Behind The Candelabra is not going to be an empty exercise in camp: ” I wanted the movie to be very generous to Lee and Scott. I took them seriously, and I took the relationship seriously. It was a real relationship that was derailed because of some very odd external forces, some of them social and some professional. But there was an extended period where they were fat and happy. And if Lee hadn’t worked in a business where he thought that was a problem, or being gay was a problem, I think there would have been a very different outcome. It’s compelling to watch the two of them together. It’s sort of a Thelma & Louise thing—they decide to jump off the cliff together. Another fascinating segment of the interview has the brothers Soderbergh discussing scenes from Behind The Candelabra in which Liberace and Thorson argue over porn and who will be “the top” and who will be “the bottom” in the bedroom. As Charley points out, the debates aren’t that different from ones he’s witnessed between straight couples. Out: One of the most distinctive scenes, perhaps because it’s so rare to see it portrayed honestly in a movie, was the argument they have about who will be a top or a bottom. SS: Whenever you’re in a sexual relationship that lasts long enough, at some point someone is going to hit on something that they want to do and the other person doesn’t want to do. That’s unfortunate, because it’s really hard to put that genie back in the bottle once it’s come out. If you’re lucky there’s some synchronicity that works out, and on the second Tuesday of every month, you get to do that. That’s absolutely a conversation straight couples have all the time. It doesn’t necessarily have the same significance, but oh, absolutely. CS: I’ve been privy to conversations between a married male and female couple when one of them wants to try it and the other is balking. And the physical implications are the first thing they’re afraid of, and the social implications are the second thing. So we have two layers of fear. And I just stand there with a smile on my face, thinking, I can’t wait to see how you work this out. SS: It’s one of my favorite scenes in the film because it is so blunt and so funny. “Why am I the Lucy in this relationship?” CS: “Because I’m the bandleader and have the nightclub act.” SS: That’s [screenwriter] Richard [LaGravenese] really hitting one out of the park. But it is fascinating, because you have Scott saying, “I’m OK with this , but I’m not OK with that .” And Lee doesn’t understand, because to him it seems like hypocrisy. I find that really true to life, in the sense that our feelings about sexuality aren’t necessarily linear. Everybody’s got some dot on a line with 10 points on it, and one is out of sync or in the wrong order. It’s a very complex, powerful area of our lives, and it creates really fascinating emotions and delusions and omissions. And I thought, What an interesting conversation, especially if Lee’s the one in the power position. CS: Another part of that scene is, “I don’t know how you can watch that stuff,” referring to the porn on the TV. “How does he get it in his mouth?” I’ve talked to gay and straight couples who say, “I don’t know why you watch that stuff, it makes me feel unloved.” And the other one is like, “It’s no big deal!” The brothers also engage in a lively discussion of their childhood that includes a substantial discussion of the cult film, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, which they watched every Christmas. It’s worth checking out. More on Behind The Candelabra : WATCH:’ Behind The Candelabra’ Trailer — Will Movie Convey Liberace’s Cultural Impact? Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. [ Out ]
