The Miami MC gears up for the summer early with new EP in Mixtape Daily. By Rahman Dukes Trina Photo: MTV News This Week’s Main Pick Queen of Hearts : Trina Holding It Down For : Miami Mixtape Album : Diamonds Are Forever Real Spit : Taking a page out of Kanye West’s notebook, Trina still insists that diamonds are a girl’s best friend. While fans wait for the Miami starlet to unveil her sixth untitled studio album later this year, the Slip-N-Slide flagship artist is feeding her heavily dedicated fanbase with a 12-track EP of all new original material. A few weeks back, Miss MIA dropped the Rick Ross collabo “Waist So Skinny,” providing a glimpse of what was to come on Diamonds. To give her Diamonds Are Forever mixture the official stamp of approval, Trina has partnered with the good folks here at Mixtape Daily for the official mixtape release . “The concept of the mixtape is just a new direction of music,” Trina told us on the phone from the Sunshine State. “It’s really fun and energetic, a different drive. I tried different types of music. I worked with a bunch of different artists, different producers, different sounds. I just wanted to do something that was fun and energetic. It’s the summer. It’s, like, the mini-CD to my new album. And I just wanted to have fun.” Joints to Check For
We take a look at the eclectic list of roles the Oscar-nominated actress, and new Superman love interest, has played. By Eric Ditzian Amy Adams Photo: Getty Images Henry Cavill might have been getting a little lonely in Metropolis. Two months after landing the role of Superman in Zack Snyder’s reboot of the superhero franchise, the 27-year-old actor still hadn’t found out who’d become his Lois Lane. The answer arrived on Sunday: Amy Adams will be play the Daily Planet reporter and Superman love interest . In a statement, Snyder called Adams “one of the most versatile and respected actresses in films today.” That’s hardly an overstatement: The 36-year-old star has performed in indies and blockbusters, musicals and animated fare, solemn dramas and bawdy comedies. Along the way she’s managed to earn three Oscar nominations, the latest for her supporting turn last year in “The Fighter.” A former Hooters waitress, Adams made her debut in 1999’s “Drop Dead Gorgeous” as a dim and cheerful beauty-pageant contestant. Supporting roles on the big and small screen followed, but her next step up the Hollywood food chain didn’t arrive until Steven Spielberg cast her as Leonardo DiCaprio’s love interest in 2002’s “Catch Me If You Can.” While things were undoubtedly going well for the actress, she then took a step back from the spotlight over the next few years and only fully resurfaced in very unlikely fashion. “June Bug,” a sort of “Meet the Parents” for the art-house crowd that starred Adams as a wide-eyed gal named Ashley who’s days away from giving birth and seemingly miles away from planet earth, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005. The performance won her a special jury prize for acting — and a year later she earned her first Oscar nod for the part. The decision to avoid mainstream fare turned out to be just what Adams’ career needed. “If you love the project, you love the project, and you could be making millions of dollars and have millions of dollars to spend or no money to spend and making no money,” Adams told us at the time . “But it’s about the script and it’s about the people and it’s about the story.” From there she began mixing studio pictures (“Talladega Nights”) with indie roles (“Sunshine Cleaning”), and ended up wowing critics and audiences in “Enchanted,” a film that managed to breathe new life into movie musicals while at the same time paying deep respect to the genre. There was also a short but satisfying arc on “The Office” as Jim Halpert’s (John Krasinski) handbag-slinging girlfriend. By the start of 2009, Adams would earn her second Oscar nod — this one for playing a 1960s-era nun in “Doubt” — and yet she couldn’t quite get used to the idea that she was indeed a movie star. “You see yourself onscreen, or you see pictures of yourself, and it can get really heady. I don’t think human beings are supposed to look at themselves that much,” she said in a 2009 Allure interview , adding that she used to think of herself as “homely” and “painfully small, short, with too much blue eye shadow because I thought, ‘It matches my eyes, so why not?’ ” Perhaps by now, following her third Oscar honor, she’s more comfortable with the notion of celebrity. Hopefully. Because her star is about to rise to a whole new level. There’s her turn as Jason Segel’s girlfriend in “The Muppets,” set to premiere later this year, and she wrapped production last year on “On the Road” opposite Kristen Stewart. In addition, she’s attached to play Janis Joplin in a big-screen biopic . But none of that will compare to the exposure the new “Superman” movie will bring her when it premieres in December 2012. Snyder, for one, couldn’t be happier with the choice. “Amy has the talent to capture all of the qualities we love about Lois,” he said. “[S]mart, tough, funny, warm, ambitious and, of course, beautiful.” What’s your favorite Amy Adams performance? Tell us in the comments. For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
While his castmates Amy Adams, Christian Bale, and Melissa Leo got Oscar nominations for their roles in The Fighter (out this week in a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack from Paramount Home Entertainment) — with the latter two winning the trophy — Mark Wahlberg’s performance went unheralded. (He did, however, share in the film’s Best Picture nod as one of its producers.) But given the larger-than-life quality that Bale and Leo, in particular, brought to their roles, it seemed like an intentional call on the part of Wahlberg and director David O. Russell to let Wahlberg’s on-screen personality recede a bit so the spotlight could shine elsewhere. Still, he’s just fine in the film, and it inspired me to think of the sublime (and the ridiculous) turns he’s had elsewhere — and no, we’re not counting The Marky Mark Workout in either category.
She’s a single woman, and her ex has talked about sleeping with someone else , but that doesn’t mean Courteney Cox will be latching on to a new man any time soon. “I have no desire [to date] right now,” Cox says in the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar . “I’m not saying never; it just seems weird. I don’t even know how that would happen or how you meet people. I don’t like to go out. I’m not great at small talk… I don’t like to go to parties.” Simply put, says the Cougar Town star: “There’s a sign on my forehead: exiting social life, entering into isolation.” Despite the faults and troubles of David Arquette, Cox admits she still cares deeply about her husband of 11 years, saying: “I’m his biggest protector. I can’t help it… If you know who David is, you know what his intentions are, how honest he is, and how big his heart is… You can’t really get mad at David because he’s not a malicious person.”
It doesn’t rhyme with any other words, but how does orange stack up against other colors when it comes to celebrity fashion? That’s the question at the center of this THG Face-Off, as Kim Kardashian goes up against Selena Gomez and Amy Adams. All three recently attended public events in similar shaded dresses and all three looks very pretty in them. But, let’s face it, there can only be one winner. Compare, contrast and vote below.
Mark Adams, bass player for 70s & 80s funk group Slave, died on March 5th. Details surrounding the cause of death have not been made public. Top 9 Must-See Black Films 25 Reasons We Love Blaxploitation Films Adams held down the low end on the group’s many classic singles, including “Just A Touch Of Love,” “Slide,” “Snapshot,” “Watching You,” and later joined former Slave frontman Steve Arrington’s Hall of Fame project, playing bass on funk jams like “Nobody Can Be You.” Arrington confirmed Adams’ death on Twitter, writing “My friend since high school has passed early this morning. The great Mark Adams bass player of Slave. I can’t believe it.” RELATED: El DeBarge Voluntarily Checks Back Into Rehab RELATED: Mint Condition Celebrate 20 Years Together, Their New TV Gig And New Album
Phyllis Mackay and Robert A. Riggle, from Seattle. According to the Adams#39; personal Web site, as part of their travels, they were engaging in “friendship evangelism – that is, finding homes for thousands of Bibles, which have been donated through grants and gifts, as we travel from place to place.” They had said their mission was to share their faith and allow it to “transform lives.” A few years back, you would often be able to find Dr. Riggle at the Seattle Animal Shelter. He filled in
I haven’t seen a Muppets movie in decades, I thought they were still lost in space, but I know for sure that they weren’t very sexy films. Until now that is. Here’s Amy Adams flashing her underwear while filming scenes for the latest installment in the franchise. First Katy Perry’s fat boobs sex up Sesame Street and now this. I guess if you’re going to throw away what little career you’ve got with a Muppets movie, might as well flash your ass for the kids. Can Muppets get boners?
I don’t really know who Amy Adams is. I just know that I am trying to look up her skirt on the set of The Muppets movie. You’d think Hollywood would have the ability to find new things to make movies about, but shit’s just remake after remake, after remake, and despite having memories of watching The Muppet show and liking it in the 80s, my friend tried to make me watch the shit recently and I wanted to kill myself, those fucking creepy stuffed things are irritating as shit.. The only way I’d be down with this project is if it was a hardcore porn, not cuz I want to see Amy Adams fuck, but cuz I want to see muppets fuck, and if Amy Adams happens to be there, so be it…. Either way, here are the pics, lacking in vagina lip….but I give the best I can….it’s not my fault Amy Adams is boring as shit.
‘Everyone was like, ‘Who knows what’s going to happen?’ ‘ he tells MTV News of having Dicky Eklund and his relatives on set. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Christian Bale Photo: MTV News For Christian Bale, one of the highlights of making “The Fighter,” a performance for which he was recently nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actor category, was meeting and getting to know the real-life inspiration for his character: Dicky Eklund. Bale said he and Eklund became buddies over the course of filming — during which Bale learned to speak “Dickenese,” Eklund’s unique manner of speaking — which proved useful when it came to translating the half-brothers’ story to the big screen. “[We said] ‘Look, there’s no story here unless we show the dregs. You’ve got to show the lows.’ ” Bale recalled telling Dicky and his brother Micky Ward, the inspiration behind Mark Wahlberg’s character. “It’s the roller coaster of their life that makes it a fascinating story. Each one individually doesn’t make a movie, but you combine the two brothers, and there’s a fascinating movie.” The “Dark Knight” star added that in showcasing so much of the life of these two men, there were creative liberties taken for time’s sake, which didn’t always go over well with Eklund. “We [had] to show that side of it, and also condensing a life into two hours, you’re taking some license,” Bale explained. “Initially, there were a lot of problems. Dicky would be saying, ‘That’s not how it went down. I said this not that’ and ‘He wasn’t there at that point. He was over here.’ “[We told him] ‘Right, but we’ve had to kind of blend these two scenes, because otherwise this movie is going to be years long.’ ” Bale recalled. “So he came to understand that, but there were a couple of moments where I had to say, ‘Dicky, don’t go punch [director] David [O. Russell] now. Don’t go punch him. It’s all right, count to 10, let’s figure it out.’ And I’m sure David and Mark had to stop him from punching me and stuff.” Bale described the initial meetings with all of Eklund and Ward’s family members — including Ward’s feisty wife Charlene (played by Amy Adams in the film) — as a trip. “Charlene was there with her sisters,” Bale recalled, “and everyone was like, ‘Who knows what’s going to happen?’ … They’re a passionate family.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Fighter.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos ‘The Fighter’ Knocks Out Hollywood
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