Angelina Jolie will almost certainly not direct Fifty Shades of Grey , but she will star in a new PSA for a project much more important to her. The 37-year-old actress always makes time for those near and dear to her heart. In this case, that means the refugees of the planet Earth. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy is helping raise awareness for World Refugee Day, coming up June 20. In a new PSA, Jolie points out that there are over 43 million refugees around the world. That’s 43 million human beings displaced from their homeland. Of those in need, UNHCR provides life-saving assistance to nearly 34 million. The organization’s goal is to share the poignant stories of refugees so that people across America will extend their generosity, concern and support. Jolie has served as a UN Goodwill Ambassador for more than a decade, and has visited refugees around the world. For that, our hat is off to her. [Photo: WENN.com]
Considering the gift Kim Kardashian bestowed upon Kanye West for his 35th birthday, following three mere months of dating, imagine what this reality star would purchase for the rapper if they did actually get married … Indeed, multiple sources confirm that Kardashian purchased for her man a black Aventador LP700-4 Lamborghini. The price tag on this slick sports car? $750,000. We’d be impressed – and nauseated – by Kim’s ability to easily afford such a gift, but come on. She doesn’t actually pay for anything. She just receives items for free after sending out a few Tweets and Facebook messages. “Thanks to all my fans,” Kanye wrote this week in response to many well wishes. “I am tweeting under the stage while Jay is rapping in Dublin on my birthday. You guys make all my dreams possible.” We wonder where pretending to date a woman best known for making a sex tape with Ray J fits into those dreams.
Snooki is not opposed to flaunting her kooka on Jersey Shore, but we’re still guessing she probably didn’t want these pictures of herself to go public. It’s unclear how, but the reality star looks to be the latest victim of sexy cell phone photos gone amok, with several very revealing shots leaking online. Here’s one of the least risque Snooki photos in question … While it’s not clear who leaked the photos, the Daily Mail (UK) obtained and published them , and the 24-year-old is clearly having some fun. She can be seen taking photos of herself clutching her girls, in a robe opened to reveal her body, as well as completely in the buff in one pic. “Clearly these are old, personal photos that were not meant for the public,” the now- pregnant Snooki’s rep told E! News following the leak. “It’s a shame someone decided to leak them for obvious personal gain.” The usually loquacious reality star, who recently got engaged to (as well as knocked up by) Jionni LaValle, has yet to address the subject. Follow the link for two more (NSFW) Snooki photos … Snooki: Would you … you know?
Welcome to THG’s Week in Review! Below, our staffers look back at the stories, stars and scandals that made the last seven days some of the craziest all year. If you don’t already, FOLLOW THG on Twitter , Google+ and Facebook for 24/7/365 news. Every day, week and year, let us be your celebrity gossip source! Now, a rundown of the week that was at The Hollywood Gossip : At age 19, finally, Miley Cyrus is engaged to Liam Hemsworth! Congrats! Teen Mom star Amber Portwood was sentenced to five years in prison . Doug Gotterba claims he was the secret lover of John Travolta for years. Married actor Brian Presley hit on Melissa Stetten … who live Tweeted it. Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee marked her 60th year on the throne. Kate Middleton’s baby bump , or lack thereof, also had Brits buzzing! Another week, and another Lindsay Lohan wardrobe malfunction . It was as Elizabeth Taylor at least. Classy wardrobe malfunction! Olivia Culpo was named Miss USA 2012 on Sunday night! Miss PA Sheena Monnin said the whole thing was rigged. Myla Sinanaj is dating Kris Humphries for some reason! Rihanna posed and got pissed in Esquire. Kristen Stewart Wins Best Kiss Kristen Stewart won Best Kiss at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards . Poor Lil Wayne feels unwelcome at Oklahoma City NBA games. Jenelle Evans and Gary Head ‘s engagement was off, briefly. Gwyneth Paltrow’s n-word controversy was surprising. Kim and Kanye supposedly might elope. Not. Gisele Bundchen is pregnant again. Timothy Poe America’s Got Talent Audition America’s Got Talent hopeful Timothy Poe is in major hot water. Faking your back story like he did will get you death threats . Dee Jay Daniels got popped for murder, gang activity. The controversial Chris Brown performed on Today … … but not before Chris Rock owned him . Scout Willis was arrested. Barack Obama Singing ‘Call Me Maybe’ by Carly Rae Jepsen The President got into the “Call Me Maybe” meme (albeit unwittingly). Amanda Bynes was charged with DUI … and asked Obama for help. The Bachelorette spoilers continue to paint a murky picture. Erin Moran of Happy Days now lives in a trailer park. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are hot. Finally, here’s Octomom as a porn star … What was the highlight of the week for you? Did we leave anything out?
‘Firework’ singer will be joined by Kenny Chesney on the NBC special, ahead of her ‘Part of Me’ film release. By Jocelyn Vena Katy Perry Photo: MTV News Katy Perry may have declared herself a “Firework” on her 2010 Teenage Dream track, but this Fourth of July she’ll perform alongside of them during the “Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular.” The singer will appear on the annual televised party as the nation blows out the candles on another year. She’ll be joined by Kenny Chesney when it all goes down on Independence Day at 9 p.m. ET. In addition to dazzling performances from Katy and Kenny, the show will also include 25 minutes of fireworks magic composed of 40,000 pyrotechnic shells. “NBC is thrilled to have Katy Perry and Kenny Chesney join us in celebrating America’s birthday,” Doug Vaughan, senior vice president of NBC Entertainment’s Special Programs and Late Night, said in a statement about the 36th installment of the annual special taking place in New York City. “These stars’ powerful voices and stage presence will serve as the perfect complement to Macy’s captivating visual artistry.” The performance couldn’t come at a more perfect time for Perry, who will release her 3-D concert film, “Katy Perry: Part of Me,” on July 5. The film is part concert film, part documentary, featuring footage from Perry’s eye-popping California Dreams Tour, as well as candid confessions about her life and vintage video of the pop star. In addition to the film, Perry also recently shot a music video for her Teenage Dream: The Complete Confession track, “Wide Awake.” “It’s the most intimate I’ve ever been,” she told MTV News about the movie . “I mean that in a non-sexual way … I mean it in a vulnerable way. And so I’m not scared of it because I think it’s important for me, and important these days, for people to not think people in my position are perfect and that if they want to achieve this type of dream or achieve a goal that they have to be flawless, they don’t.” Are you excited for Katy Perry’s Fourth of July performance? Leave your comment below! Related Artists Katy Perry
Heading into this season, America’s Got Talent assumed the hiring of Howard Stern would be its most controversial move. Then Timothy Poe happened. The contestant is under major fire for lying about his experience in Afghanistan, as Poe claimed during his audition that he suffered a brain injury from an explosion in 2009, but he has no evidence of this occurrence and the photo he provided to AGT of himself in combat has been debunked as someone else . Timothy Poe America’s Got Talent Audition But Poe did move on to the next round and is scheduled to be featured in Las Vegas next week. What’s a reality competition to do? TMZ says producers will “definitely” edit down footage a bit, but it’s unclear whether they will axe Poe altogether. “I was blown away that I was totally taken in,” Howie Mandell says of the act. “I’m really angry with the guy.” What do you think America’s Got Talent should do? Should Timothy Poe be disqualified?
In its relentless coverage of rising gas prices, Fox News made some outrageous predictions of $5, $6, $7 and even $8 a gallon gasoline by summer. But these predictions have proven to be nothing more than wishful thinking by a network that hoped to use high prices at the pump as a campaign issue against President Obama. Although experts agree that U.S. policies have little impact on the global oil… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Media Matters for America Discovery Date : 06/06/2012 16:34 Number of articles : 2
In its relentless coverage of rising gas prices, Fox News made some outrageous predictions of $5, $6, $7 and even $8 a gallon gasoline by summer. But these predictions have proven to be nothing more than wishful thinking by a network that hoped to use high prices at the pump as a campaign issue against President Obama. Although experts agree that U.S. policies have little impact on the global oil… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Media Matters for America Discovery Date : 06/06/2012 16:34 Number of articles : 2
Also in Wednesday afternoon’s quick news roundup, The Hobbit is set to premiere in Down Under later this year, Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch complete a “secret” indie and Captain America 2 appears to have found its directors. Also up is news on a network starring Asian Americans and Universal chief Ron Meyer heads to UCLA festivities. IFC Midnight Takes Rights to Antiviral U.S. rights to Brandon Cronenberg’s Cannes debut Antiviral have been picked up by IFC Midnight. The film, also with a screenplay by Cronenberg, stars Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith and Malcolm McDowell. The film follows “Syd March, an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to rabid fans. Syd supplements his income by selling illegal samples of these viruses on the black market,smuggling them out of the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills superstar Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and obsessed fans. Arianna Bocco, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Productions of Sundance Selects/IFC Films negotiated the deal with Gregory Chambet of TF1 International. Asian Americans Take Spotlight in Network’s Film Fest Mnet , the first national, 24/7 English-language television network in the U.S. for all things Asian, kicks off the third season of Short Notice with a film festival that allows fans to select their favorite short film created by and starring Asian Americans . As one of Mnet’s original programming series, the show premieres on Wednesday, June 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT with new host George Wang. Universal Chief Ron Meyer to Deliver UCLA Commencement Ron Meyer, Universal Studios President and COO, will be the 2012 Commencement Speaker for this year’s UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s (TFT) commencement ceremony. Recipients of TFT’s 2012 Distinguished Alumni Awards are director and screenwriter Penelope Spheeris for Film and Shirley Jo Finney, the award-winning international director/actor, for Theater, both of whom will receive their awards at the ceremony. UCLA Names New Chair of Dept. of Film, Television, and Digital Media William McDonald, award-winning cinematographer and professor, has been appointed the new Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media (FTVDM) at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) and will assume his new position on July 1st. GKids Takes Rights to Japan’s From up on Poppy Hill GKIDS is handling theatrical, home video, television and VOD rights and will qualify the film for the Academy Awards in the Best Animated Feature category. Directed by Goro Miyazaki, the film is set in Yokohama in 1963, about a high school couple’s innocent love and the secrets surrounding their births. The story takes place in a Japan that is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics. GKids plans a March 2013 release. Around the ‘net… Elvis will Appear in Film and TV – Virtually CORE Media Group, which owns the Elvis Presley brand, has signed a deal with digital production company Digital Domain Media Group to develop, produce a series of “virtual” Elvis Presley apparitions for film and TV projects, Deadline reports . The Hobbit to Debut November in New Zealand The screening at Wellington’s Embassy Theatre will take place two weeks ahead of the film’s release on 14 December. Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson said it was fitting to hold the premiere “where the journey began.” Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit is set 60 years before the Lord Of The Rings trilogy of films, BBC reports . Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch Complete ‘Top Secret’ Indie The actors worked on Prince Avalanche by writer-director David Gordon Green, based on Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson’s Icelandic comedy Either Way . The film revolves around two men whose lives intersect while working on a road striping crew together. Green and his longtime collaborators Lisa Muskat and Craig Zobel produced the film with James Belfer and Derrick Tseng, Variety reports . Russo Bros. Appear to be Headed to Captain America 2 Anthony and Joe Russo are close to signing on to direct the Captain America sequel for Marvel. The Russo’s credits include You, Me & Dupree and NBC’s comedy Community , THR reports .
Also in Wednesday afternoon’s quick news roundup, The Hobbit is set to premiere in Down Under later this year, Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch complete a “secret” indie and Captain America 2 appears to have found its directors. Also up is news on a network starring Asian Americans and Universal chief Ron Meyer heads to UCLA festivities. IFC Midnight Takes Rights to Antiviral U.S. rights to Brandon Cronenberg’s Cannes debut Antiviral have been picked up by IFC Midnight. The film, also with a screenplay by Cronenberg, stars Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith and Malcolm McDowell. The film follows “Syd March, an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to rabid fans. Syd supplements his income by selling illegal samples of these viruses on the black market,smuggling them out of the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills superstar Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and obsessed fans. Arianna Bocco, Senior Vice President of Acquisitions & Productions of Sundance Selects/IFC Films negotiated the deal with Gregory Chambet of TF1 International. Asian Americans Take Spotlight in Network’s Film Fest Mnet , the first national, 24/7 English-language television network in the U.S. for all things Asian, kicks off the third season of Short Notice with a film festival that allows fans to select their favorite short film created by and starring Asian Americans . As one of Mnet’s original programming series, the show premieres on Wednesday, June 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT with new host George Wang. Universal Chief Ron Meyer to Deliver UCLA Commencement Ron Meyer, Universal Studios President and COO, will be the 2012 Commencement Speaker for this year’s UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s (TFT) commencement ceremony. Recipients of TFT’s 2012 Distinguished Alumni Awards are director and screenwriter Penelope Spheeris for Film and Shirley Jo Finney, the award-winning international director/actor, for Theater, both of whom will receive their awards at the ceremony. UCLA Names New Chair of Dept. of Film, Television, and Digital Media William McDonald, award-winning cinematographer and professor, has been appointed the new Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media (FTVDM) at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) and will assume his new position on July 1st. GKids Takes Rights to Japan’s From up on Poppy Hill GKIDS is handling theatrical, home video, television and VOD rights and will qualify the film for the Academy Awards in the Best Animated Feature category. Directed by Goro Miyazaki, the film is set in Yokohama in 1963, about a high school couple’s innocent love and the secrets surrounding their births. The story takes place in a Japan that is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics. GKids plans a March 2013 release. Around the ‘net… Elvis will Appear in Film and TV – Virtually CORE Media Group, which owns the Elvis Presley brand, has signed a deal with digital production company Digital Domain Media Group to develop, produce a series of “virtual” Elvis Presley apparitions for film and TV projects, Deadline reports . The Hobbit to Debut November in New Zealand The screening at Wellington’s Embassy Theatre will take place two weeks ahead of the film’s release on 14 December. Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson said it was fitting to hold the premiere “where the journey began.” Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit is set 60 years before the Lord Of The Rings trilogy of films, BBC reports . Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch Complete ‘Top Secret’ Indie The actors worked on Prince Avalanche by writer-director David Gordon Green, based on Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson’s Icelandic comedy Either Way . The film revolves around two men whose lives intersect while working on a road striping crew together. Green and his longtime collaborators Lisa Muskat and Craig Zobel produced the film with James Belfer and Derrick Tseng, Variety reports . Russo Bros. Appear to be Headed to Captain America 2 Anthony and Joe Russo are close to signing on to direct the Captain America sequel for Marvel. The Russo’s credits include You, Me & Dupree and NBC’s comedy Community , THR reports .
