The Prince Harry naked photo scandal may be far from over. Max Clifford, one of the most powerful and prominent publicists in Britain, says he’s “been approached by two American girls” claiming to have additional photos and evidence from Harry’s wild night in Vegas, according to Us . “I turned them down,” Clifford says, however ” there’s more out there . Stories which wont go down well with the Royal family. It could get worse.” How much worse? That remains to be seen. Harry will be in the doghouse regardless, but right now the two nude shots are actually pretty tame. If a deluge of new, crazier photos were to hit the Internet, the nude pic scandal could become a royal pain … in a manner of speaking of course. British newspaper The Sun ignored a warning from the palace and a regulatory ruling on Friday morning by controversially publishing the pics. Imagine what kind of hullabaloo would go down if there were a full frontal shot of the crown jewels exposed … think Harry’s sweating right now? Prince Harry :
The Ridley Scott-directed Sci-Fi thriller awaits its U.S. bow this weekend and momentum appears to be on its side. Across the Atlantic where audiences have already flocked to see the movie, Twentieth Century Fox is already cashing in, with a £6.24M gross last weekend, which translates to just over $9.7M. That figure outshines any of the Alien movies, according to The Guardian which reported the figures. Of course anyone with a television in the English-speaking world and beyond knew last weekend was Britain’s Diamond Jubilee extravaganza and the government tacked on two bank holidays Monday and Tuesday so crowds could join in on the festivities. And while they did, some clearly took a break for some big screen good times because Prometheus tacked on an additional £3.68M ($5.73M) those days, making the pic bigger than the total gross across the pond than any of the Alien movies, according to The Guardian. The longer term impact is challenging to determine since prequels and sequels tend to muster fans to head to the theaters in bigger droves than a film first out of the gate. But for comparisons sake, Gladiator opened in May 2000 with £3.56M ($5.54M) and eventually tallied £31.2M ($48.56M), though Robin Hood opened with £5.75M ($8.95M) but it eventually totaled only £15.6M ($24.28M).
Ken Loach and The Angels’ Share star Paul Brannigan in Cannes Tuesday. Cannes has a soft spot for Scottish director Ken Loach. His latest film, The Angels’ Share , is his eleventh film in competition and he even won the Palme d’Or for The Wind That Shakes the Barley back in 2006. His latest, a comedy — or perhaps more precisely a dramatic-comedy — is a rarity of sorts for the director who is accustomed to critical acclaim though his well-crafted films can leave audiences depressed. But The Angels’ Share involves a pack of offenders hoping to turn good, a last ditch crime, and a whole lot of high brow whiskey. The story serves as one more canvas for the plight of the working class. And for this screening, Cannes used subtitles to guide audiences through the characters’ thick Scottish brogue. “I’d rather have subtitles so people can understand what’s going on,” said writer Paul Laverty. “It’s much [preferable] to diluting the local language and Americanizing it so you miss some of the local [nuance] of the film.” In the film, newcomer Paul Brannigan plays Robbie who is part of a posse of hooligans who are ordered to enter a community payback program. Harry (John Henshaw) oversees Robbie and his fellow Scottish brood. One day, Harry offers Robbie a taste of rare whiskey to celebrate the birth of his son, which gives him an idea. If he can get his hands on a single barrel of the malt, the cash would be enough to erase their financial problems allowing them to start over. “I’m familiar with what Robbie came from,” Brannigan said Tuesday in his thick Scottish lingo. “I came from a rough neighborhood in Glasgow where there are thousands of unemployed.” Brannigan said he had a chance meeting with Laverty who had found him walking out of a community center in a scene that would not have been unfamiliar in the film and the two started talking. The result was simply life-altering for Brannigan who didn’t hold back words. “He saved me — he saved me! It was tough. I had no money. Hands up, I think he saved my life because who knows what I would have done to get money — who knows.” Though Brannigan said that after this film comes out he’ll again be unemployed, he did manage a part in the upcoming Scarlett Johansson starrer Under the Skin and hopes to continue acting. Though he kept pretty quiet about details, he apparently gets naked in front of Johansson’s character in the movie, which he did with some anxiety. “She’s an absolutely fantastic girl and once I got to talking with her, I felt much more at ease,” he said. Never inclined to sugar-coat language, Loach and Laverty embraced the inner-city vernacular that surrounds Robbie. The festival offered up subtitles during Monday night’s premiere and similarly to the recent Weinstein Company documentary Bully in the U.S., Angels’ Share ran into conflict with the U.K.’s MPAA counterpart for excessive language, receiving the equivalent of an R-rating in Britain, though unlike Bully ‘s F-bombs, it was the C-word that ran afoul of censors. “We were allowed seven ‘cunts’ but only two of them could be aggressive ‘cunts,'” said Loach, laughing. “You get into the realm of surrealism here in terms of language. The British middle class is obsessed with what they call ‘bad language.’ But the manipulative and deceitful language of politics is accepted. I’d call those bad words. Embracing the ancient swear words that have gone back for centuries and words we all enjoy should be embraced.” Get more of Movieline’s coverage of Cannes here . Follow Brian Brooks on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
She can NOT be serious ! A 70-year-old virgin is on the lookout for a tall, dark and handsome millionaire after declaring she is finally to get chopped down, it was reported: Cabaret singer Pam Shaw always put her career before her love life, never finding the time to bag a man. And despite performing under the saucy stage name of ‘The Sexational Pam’, the pensioner, who has also starred in Shameless, does not believe in sex before marriage. But after decades of celibacy, Pam, from Wigan, Greater Manchester, says she is ready to take the plunge and find the right man. She told The Sun: “My standards are still very high, though. I’m hoping to bag a tall, dark and handsome millionaire. “I feel I am ready to give marriage a go and maybe go to bed with a man. You are never too old for anything. Just look at Joan Collins.” During her heyday on Britain’s club circuit, Pam rubbed shoulders with sex symbols including Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck and Roger Moore but never hopped between the sheets. She added: “Men saw the outfits I wore on stage and thought I would be easy. “But I’ve never really been intimate with a man, just a bit of kissing. I had a sexy stage name and dressed sexy but that was all for my career.” Pam, who says people are astounded when they discover how old she is, shunned marriage in favour of following her singing dream. Instead, she lived with her mother Lilian until she died aged 97 in 1995. But during her lifetime of singledom, Pam did once become engaged to an oil ring worker – but broke it off when she realised she didn’t fancy him. We see her trying to get her groove on and we agree it’s never too late to get it poppin’; BUUUUUUT it might be time to go get the rechargeable batteries and sit this one out before breaks a hip and not her hymen. Check out this sizzlin septuagenarian, would you smang it? Source
The latest feature to emerge from Britain’s Aardman Productions workshop, The Pirates! Band of Misfits , succeeds in spite of a faint but persistent sense of factory settings and finishes. Following their partnership with Sony Animation for last year’s computer animated Arthur Christmas , Aardman (whose co-founder, Peter Lord, directs here, along with Jeff Newitt) has returned to the stop-motion claymation that helped build the company name. It’s a strange thing, knowing that a movie was literally handmade and still feeling it is vulnerable to the glaze of mass-farmed entertainment. The story, adapted from the first two installments of a children’s serial by Gideon Defoe (who also wrote the screenplay), is the first source of this feeling. It’s 1837, and we meet the garrulous Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant, dining on his dialogue with impeccable form) as he resolves to enter an annual Pirate of the Year contest somewhere in the West Indies. Pirate Captain leads a ship of holy fools, each one sillier and more plainly named than the next. There is The Albino Pirate (Anton Yelchin), The Pirate with Gout (Brendan Gleeson), and The Pirate with a Scarf (Martin Freeman), among others. Pirate Captain’s rivals are announced with fanfare: Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven), the brash American, Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek), the Jamaican cutthroat, and Peg Leg Hastings (Lenny Henry), the… peg legged one. It’s all rather casual — not unengaging, exactly, but lacking a narrative energy all its own. Flashy introductions are made, but the set-up feels like that of a franchise coasting through its third or fourth installment. Pirate Captain cuts an inglorious figure—he lacks looting and pillaging chops but desperately seeks the validation of his co-pirates, who see him as something of a tragic clown. The Pirate with a Scarf plays ego-fluffer, insisting that real piracy isn’t about winning trophies, it’s about swashbuckling adventures and glossy beards. And Pirate Captain is certainly blessed with the latter: His facial hair is much discussed and much deployed, for good reason — it forms a perfectly sculpted pelt, with curls like browned fiddleheads. Much of Pirates! is as beautifully made, but you wouldn’t know it to look through the murkifying lens of 3-D glasses. About halfway through, around the time Pirate Captain attacks a ship carrying Charles Darwin (David Tennant) and is informed that his beloved parrot is actually a rare dodo bird, I slipped the glasses down my nose. Like many animated films with 3-D packaging, plenty of Pirates! doesn’t use the technology to much discernable effect. What you notice, then, is the way the animator’s work comes to life — begins to gleam, even — without the darkening of the glasses. I watched as much as I could of the rest of the movie this way, and began to resent the shots where the effects were central, forcing a reversion to three dimensions. In this case the depth of the actual fields involved in making the film are not worth what they cost in the color and texture of the clay figurines. As the images begin to feel drained of their luster, the story starts to spark with more of Aardman’s antic spirit. Devout monarchists will want to skip the part where Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), with whom poor Darwin is painfully besotted, goes into martial mode to acquire the dodo bird Pirate Captain is lured into presenting to a scientific conference in London. A deadpan monkey whom Darwin has trained to speak with cue cards is a clever touch, and Grant and his inspired line deliveries only get better as Pirate Captain sells his soul for a bit of glory and then faces off with a Queen who runs a rare animals eating club and hates pirates for being so sentimental and passé. The sight of Queen Vicky slashing and burning in her bloomers in the set-piece finale make you wonder what might have happened had the movie not felt obliged to dull its shine for anyone’s sake. Follow Michelle Orange on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Though Britain’s hottest new boy band The Wanted are having absolutely no trouble nabbing scores of new fans every day, having their single “Glad You Came” performed on Glee certainly can’t hurt their quest for chart domination here in the US. Hop below to listen to the Dalton Academy Warblers (a boy band in their … More » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Idolator Discovery Date : 17/02/2012 22:33 Number of articles : 2
This isn’t the Sam Cooke your mom used to jerk off to….. This is some slut who FHM said had the best boobs in Britain half a decade ago when she was a page 3 girl for the UK Sun back in 2006 and I guess her career just blew up so hard…..that she’s a page 3 girl again today probably trying to make rent money cuz the last 6 years have left her 25 and not rockin’ the best breasts in the UK…that just a lie FHM told her…it’s all lies people…. So here she is today….for old times and new beginnings, holding onto the one contact that answers her calls….
An apparently topless Rihanna showed off her long blonde hair on Twitter last night. She’s rocked everything from massive red curls to a platinum bob with blunt bangs in the past couple of months. Now, she’s debuted yet another dramatic ‘do. Which really looks good with no shirt: The 23-year-old singer tweeted the pic of herself sporting a long, layered blonde style (and not much else!) along with the following message: “#Back2Work 1st Cover of the year!!! #ELLE,” followed by “Bleach + weave #WERQ.” Later that night she sat courtside at L.A.’s Staples Center to watch the Clippers (bet you didn’t hear THAT three years ago) beat the Nuggets, turning heads with her new locks. What do you think of Rihanna’s blonde hair?
He is the champion, our friends. Adam Lambert will join iconic band Queen on tour this summer, both sides announced this week, a development that follows the singer’s 2009 American Idol finale performance with original members Brian May and Roger Taylor; as well as their teaming up again at the MTV European Music Awards in November. “The intention is to pay tribute to [late singer Freddie Mercury] and the band by singing some f-cking great songs,” Lambert tells Great Britain’s The Daily Star. “It’s to keep the music alive for the fans and give it an energy that Freddie would have been proud of.” Lambert, of course, admits that he has no intention of replacing Mercury, who passed away from AIDS in 1991. “That’s impossible,” he said. “The way I’m choosing to view it is that it’s a great honor and one I’m in no way going to shirk.” Adam and the group will tour in May and stop at Knebworth in England, where Queen played their final gig with Mercury in 1986.
