The only time I actually follow American Idol is when we’re getting behind-the-scenes booty shots from Jennifer Lopez , so I’ve never heard of this Pia Toscano hottie before, but apparently she was a runner-up on the show a few years back. After these pictures from the iHeartRadio Music Awards though, consider me Pia’s newest fan. Who cares if she can sing? She totally nailed this sideboob. And I always love it when hotties do the classics. » view all 11 photos Photos: WENN.com
The 23rd installment of James Bond became one of only a little over a dozen to score $1 billion worldwide. Also in Wednesday’s round-up of news, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey crossed a milestone of its own; Silver Linings Playbook snatches European awards; China’s Lost in Thailand marks a record at home. Skyfall Crossed $1 Billion Mark The 23rd installment of James Bond became the 14th film ever to pass the $1 billion mark globally. It has grossed nearly $290 million as of the weekend, Deadline reports . The Hobbit Crosses $600 Million Globally The first installment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit pics hit the $600 million milestone over the holiday weekend. It has taken in $22.7 million domestically, putting it ahead of 2001’s The Fellowship of the Ring ($189.3 million), but below the 17-day come of The Two Towers ($243.6 million) and The Return of the King ($272.8 million), EW reports . Silver Linings Playbook Wins Most Awards at Italian-Hollywood Festival The feature directed by David O. Russell picked up four awards at the Capri, Hollywood Film Festival including the festival’s film of the year prize. Other winners included Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild , Juan Antonio Bayona’s action drama The Impossible and crime thriller The Iceman by Ariel Vromen, THR reports . Low Budget Lost In Thailand Becomes Highest Grossing Chinese Film The low budget Chinese-produced comedy is Chna’s highest-grosing domestically made film, passing the 1 billion yuan ($160 million) mark since debuting December 12, even beating out James Cameron’s Titanic in 3-D, last year’s most popular foreign film. Set in Thailand, the film revolves around two businessmen who link up with a tourist who explore the country. It’s full of slapstick humor and action scenes, Variety reports . Specialty Box Office: Zero Dark Thirty , Amour , Stellar in 2nd Weekend; West of Memphis OK in Debut, Promised Land Soft Sony/Columbia Pictures’ limited-run engagement of Zero Dark Thirty showed impressive stamina, and the studio’s specialty market distributor Sony Pictures Classics also had great news for Amour but not so great news for newcommer West Of Memphis in three-day estimates for the pre-New Year’s weekend, while Focus Features, Deadline reports .
Nine films have advanced to the final round of pre-nominations in the Academy’s Best Foreign Language category. Previously 71 films had qualified for consideration. This weekend’s Sony Classics release, Amour , which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival is among the films making the shortlist as well as Canada’s War Witch , the Gael Garcia Bernal starter No (Chile), France’s huge global box office hit A Royal Affair , Iceland’s Baltasar Kormákur’s The Deep and lauded Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills . Five nominees will emerge from this list via Academy members who will view the shortlist after the new year and then casting their ballots. The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. PT, and the Oscar ceremony will take place February 24th. The Best Foreign-Language Oscar Shortlist for the 85th Academy Awards: Austria, “Amour,” Michael Haneke, director Canada, “War Witch,” Kim Nguyen, director Chile, “No,” Pablo Larraín, director Denmark, “A Royal Affair,” Nikolaj Arcel, director France, “The Intouchables,” Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, directors Iceland, “The Deep,” Baltasar Kormákur, director Norway, “Kon-Tiki,” Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, directors Romania, “Beyond the Hills,” Cristian Mungiu, director Switzerland, “Sister,” Ursula Meier, director
A Tale of Two Titties? The Pud Also Rises? Snatch-22? Jane Bare? Madame Boner-y? Moby-Dick (You wouldn’t even need to change that one)? They’re coming to a bookstore [ Is that like a Kindle? -Kids these days] near you, and sooner than you might think. Publisher Clandestine Classics is hoping to combine the craze for literary mash-ups a la Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with the craze for dirty books a la 50 Shades of Grey with a new series, launching July 30, that makes explicit what the great works of English literature merely imply. Here’s how they sell it on their blog : “The old fashioned pleasantries and timidity have all been stripped away, quite literally. You didn’t really think that these much loved characters only held hands and pecked cheeks did you? Come with us, as we embark on a breathtaking experience—behind the closed bedroom doors of our favourite, most-beloved British characters.” Once again, porno is way ahead of the curve on this one. The adult industry has been churning out nude, rude versions of classic tales from Alice In Wonderland (1976) to the Marquis de Sade’s Justine (1969) to Bodacious Ta-Ta’s (1984) for decades now. What, you didn’t read Bodacious Ta-Ta’s in high school? See lusty literary icons come to life like Edwidge Fenech as Madame Bovary (1969) and Keira Knightley as the adulterous Lara in Doctor Zhivago right here at MrSkin.com!
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Not a “coming out party “in the “Mom, Dad, I’m a lesbian” sense (though that would also be pretty hot). This is a “coming out party” like wealthy patrician types use to introduce their debutante daughters to polite society…only better. Because in this case former iCarly actress and veteran of the tween machine Emily Ratajowski is here to announce that she’s all grown up by taking off all of her clothes. What’s iCarly ? Couldn’t tell ya. But we’re oh so very slappy to meet you, Emily. See more unbelievable nude pics from 20-year-old Emily Ratajowski after the jump!
Not a “coming out party “in the “Mom, Dad, I’m a lesbian” sense (though that would also be pretty hot). This is a “coming out party” like wealthy patrician types use to introduce their debutante daughters to polite society…only better. Because in this case former iCarly actress and veteran of the tween machine Emily Ratajowski is here to announce that she’s all grown up by taking off all of her clothes. What’s iCarly ? Couldn’t tell ya. But we’re oh so very slappy to meet you, Emily. See more unbelievable nude pics from 20-year-old Emily Ratajowski after the jump!
Steven Morowitz was born for SKINema. He’s the second-generation owner of DistribPix , the legendary distributor that’s been credited with creating the adult industry “one pubic hair at a time”. DistribPix was created in 1965 and thrived by providing the grindhouses of Times Square with sexploitation fare like Michael and Roberta Findlay ‘s Satan’s Bed (1965) and Joe Sarno ‘s The Bed and How to Make It! (1966). Bit by bit, these films pushed the limits of what could be shown on screen until adult films as we know them first came into being in the late 60’s. It was then that DistribPix blossomed into a production company that produced many of the classics of the “Golden Age” of porn from directors like Bill Lustig , Chuck Vincent , Carter Stevens , Shaun Costello , Danny Stone , and The Amero Brothers . And when VHS came along, DistribPix was once again at the forefront of this SKINematic revolution, distributing films from their massive catalog for the home video market. But the decline of the VHS market also caused a decline in DistribPix’s business, and by the early 2000s the company had essentially gone dormant. That’s when Steven stepped in and made it his mission to restore and re-release these historically important films in deluxe special editions that put them in their “proper historical context” (i.e.,come packed with cool commentary and illuminating extras). DistribPix is the company behind the restoration of Naked Came the Stranger (1975) released earlier this year ( see HD pics and clips here at Mr. Skin ), as well as the HD restoration of The Opening of Misty Beethoven we told you about earlier this week on the Mr. Skin blog. We talked to Steven at home in New York City, where he told us about growing up in Times Square, some of the gems of the DistribPix catalog, and their Kickstarter campaign to bring Misty to Blu-ray. More after the jump!
Steven Morowitz was born for SKINema. He’s the second-generation owner of DistribPix , the legendary distributor that’s been credited with creating the adult industry “one pubic hair at a time”. DistribPix was created in 1965 and thrived by providing the grindhouses of Times Square with sexploitation fare like Michael and Roberta Findlay ‘s Satan’s Bed (1965) and Joe Sarno ‘s The Bed and How to Make It! (1966). Bit by bit, these films pushed the limits of what could be shown on screen until adult films as we know them first came into being in the late 60’s. It was then that DistribPix blossomed into a production company that produced many of the classics of the “Golden Age” of porn from directors like Bill Lustig , Chuck Vincent , Carter Stevens , Shaun Costello , Danny Stone , and The Amero Brothers . And when VHS came along, DistribPix was once again at the forefront of this SKINematic revolution, distributing films from their massive catalog for the home video market. But the decline of the VHS market also caused a decline in DistribPix’s business, and by the early 2000s the company had essentially gone dormant. That’s when Steven stepped in and made it his mission to restore and re-release these historically important films in deluxe special editions that put them in their “proper historical context” (i.e.,come packed with cool commentary and illuminating extras). DistribPix is the company behind the restoration of Naked Came the Stranger (1975) released earlier this year ( see HD pics and clips here at Mr. Skin ), as well as the HD restoration of The Opening of Misty Beethoven we told you about earlier this week on the Mr. Skin blog. We talked to Steven at home in New York City, where he told us about growing up in Times Square, some of the gems of the DistribPix catalog, and their Kickstarter campaign to bring Misty to Blu-ray. More after the jump!
