Ah boy… Rihanna Allegedly Taking Chris Brown To Barbados For New Years Eve Via The Sun The 24-year-old singer has booked a plush five-star villa on the exclusive Gold Coast area of the tropical island for a “bonding holiday”. She hopes Brown — who left her battered and bruised in a vicious assault in 2009 — will be able to convince her close circle that he’s a changed man. And Rihanna wants to persuade them that — despite fierce criticism — she was right to take him back. The star has also planned for Brown’s mother to fly out so the two sets of families can spend time together. So basically Robyn wants to convince her friends and fam that Chris isn’t the woman-beating azzhole that we all know he is. Good luck with that… A source said: “The more the public criticise Rihanna for getting back with Chris, the more determined she is to do whatever she wants. “While no one else can understand it, she’s convinced that Chris is the love of her life and her soulmate and that they’re simply meant to be together. “She’s booked him and his mum into a five-star villa in Barbados over New Year so they can all get some downtime with her family. “But they’re unrepentant and they want to show the whole world that they’ve moved on from what happened in 2009.” Chris Brown + Rihanna + NYE on a tropical island + sticky-icky + champagne = BABY! Image via Twitter
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She showl is one classy broad! Via Huffington Post: Nadya “Octomom” Suleman is heading to Las Vegas in January where her solo porn tape has been nominated for four AVN Awards, which she hopes to win. “I’m very excited to attend the AVN Awards, Nayda tells The Huffington Post. “I’ve never been to anything like that before so I’m really looking forward to it.” She has been nominated for Best Celebrity S–ex Tape, Best Solo Release, Best DVD Extras, and Best Marketing Campaign surrounding her controversial video, “Octomom Home Alone.” “I’m totally honored and blown away to even be nominated,” she tells The Huffington Post. “It was a fun and life changing experience for me to make the movie.” At the moment she doesn’t have plans to make another, but that’s what James Cameron said about “Avatar” too. SMH. AP
Newly-minted adult film star Nadya “Octomom” Suleman is headed to the granddaddy of all celebrity galas, the 2013 AVN Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada! So thrilled is the mother of 14 that the Octomom porn got nominated for four AVN Awards, she plans on going to the ceremony and going home a winner. Nadya admits she was “completely surprised” that she was nominated for four honors : Best Marketing Campaign for her film, “Octomom Home Alone.” Best Celebrity Sex Tape Best Solo Release Best DVD Extras Yes … Octomom: Home Alone apparently has DVD Extras. Can you say stocking stuffer?! Octo says she feels she has the best chance of winning #2 on the above list. The reason? “I don’t consider myself a celebrity, but I have never heard of the other people nominated. So I’m pretty sure I have a good chance of winning,” she says. To Nadya Suleman , the January 19 show marks a truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, since she says she’s retiring from porn as a one-hit masturbating wonder. We should all be so lucky.
In Monday afternoon’s round-up of news stories, Twilight rocketed atop the box office again. Liz & Dick is Lifetime is a ‘moderate’ success despite the hype. Dubai picks an opening film and highlights lineup. Susan Boyle may head to the big screen. And India is set for a Cannes fete. Twilight On Top at the Box Office Again Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 , the final installment of the vampire fantasy films, has topped the US box office for the second week in a row. Early estimates suggest it took $43.1 million between Friday and Sunday, James Bond film Skyfall was second with $36 million, followed by Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln with $25m (£15.6m). Domestic revenues for the year currently stand at $9.75 billion, with a strong December line-up still to come. The current annual domestic record is $10.6 billion, set in 2009, BBC reports . Liz & Dick Pulls In 3.5 Million Viewers The made for Lifetime TV movie about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton was the fourth biggest viewed origin movie premiere on ad-supported cable this year. It drew 3 million less viewers than Steel Magnolias which played the network in October, Deadline reports . Life of Pi to Open Dubai International Film Festival The festival running December 9 – 16 will also include Hitchcock , Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away and Cannes Palme d’Or winner Amour . The Sapphires will close out the event. Other highlights include Karzan by Kadar Bekas and Wadjda directed by Haiffa Al Mansour, Saudi’s first-ever female moviemaker to shoot a film on her own in the conservative country THR reports . Fox Searchlight Eyes Susan Boyle Biopic The company has picked up the life rights to Boyle’s story along with rights to the musical I Dreamed a Dream . The idea will be to merge the two to develop a re-imagined film version of the musical. A director and screenwriter are still pending, Deadline reports . Cannes to Fete India in 2013 It’s hard to believe Cannes news is beginning, but event organizers said it will commemorate the 100th anniversary of India’s film industry by making it the festival’s “Guest Country” for 2013. The home of Bollywood will be the third country to be honored by festival organizers following Egypt in 2011 and Brazil last year. The 66th annual Cannes film festival runs from May 15 to 26, The Guardian reports .
Jessica Chastain is riding a huge wave of Best Actress buzz this week for Katherine Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty , but let’s not forget the memorable impression she made earlier this year as a bootlegger’s moll in John Hillcoat’s brutal period drama Lawless . See Chastain, Shia LaBeouf , Tom Hardy , and the Lawless gang channel Depression-era chic in Movieline’s exclusive set of never-before-released photos from the Lawless set. I’m particularly enamored of this shot of Chastain as Maggie, the city girl with a past laying low with the Bondurant brothers, posing Bonnie Parker-style LIKE A BOSS. Head here for high-res versions of our exclusive Lawless set photos . Although these Lawless are only available here, the film hits DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday (November 27) with featurettes, audio commentary with director John Hillcoat and author (and Bondurant descendant) Matt Bondurant, deleted scenes and more. They were brothers who became outlaws, and outlaws who became heroes…The three Bondurant boys (Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke), along with their sultry new hire (Jessica Chastain), command the most lucrative bootlegging operation in Franklin County, Virginia. The locals consider them “indestructible.” But the law – in the form of a corrupt special deputy (Guy Pearce) – wants a cut of their action, at any cost. When youngest brother Jack (LaBeouf) gets a taste of power with a deadly gangster (Gary Oldman), the whole business blows sky high. Based on the astonishing true story, the Bondurant brotherhood is the stuff of legend. READ MORE ON LAWLESS AT MOVIELINE ! Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
If you thought Japanese animation was all horny teens and laser guns and rocketships, prepare to have your mind blown by a tragic tale of wartime and lost youth ( Grave of the Fireflies ). And if you thought French star Alain Delon was known only for his work for art-house directors like Luchino Visconti and Jean-Pierre Melville (and for appearing on the cover of The Smiths’ The Queen is Dead album), get ready to watch him buckle his swash ( Zorro ). HIGH: Grave of the Fireflies (Section 23; $19.98 DVD, $29.98 DVD) WHO’S RESPONSIBLE: Written and directed by Isao Takahata, based on the novel by Akiyuki Nosaka. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT: Teenage Seita and his young sister Setsuko are on their own after their mother dies in the firebombing of Tokyo in the waning days of World War II. There’s never a good time for children to be separated from their loving parents, but there are few junctures of history worse than being in Japan in the final months of that bloody conflict. The two do what they can to survive, but hopelessness is hard to overcome. WHY IT’S SCHMANCY: My friends in the cartoon biz love to say “Animation is not a genre,” so even though this is an animated movie, and one about kids no less, Grave of the Fireflies is an intensely moving (and often disturbing) film that’s definitely not for the youngest of viewers. Director Takahata doesn’t have the PR in the Western world of his Studio Ghibli partner Hayao Miyazaki ( Spirited Away , My Neighbor Totoro ), but he’s made two movies (this one and Pom Poko ) that leave me a sobbing wreck every time. Fireflies deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with other antiwar classics like Forbidden Games and Spirit of the Beehive , both of which are also told from young people’s perspectives. WHY YOU SHOULD BUY IT (AGAIN): It’s a gorgeous piece of work, even when the misery portrayed is hard to watch, so the fact that the film is finally getting a Blu-Ray release in the U.S. is exciting news. This version also features a new English-language dub, as well as storyboards for the film (and for some deleted scenes), along with the Japanese theatrical trailer. LOW: Zorro (Somerville House; DVD $19.98, Blu-Ray $24.98) WHO’S RESPONSIBLE: Written by Giorgio Arlorio; directed by Duccio Tessari; starring Alain Delon, Ottavia Piccolo, Stanley Baker, Moustache. (Yes, Moustache.) WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT: Nobleman Don Diego de la Vega (Delon) masquerades as his dead friend and fills in as the governor of an embattled province so that by night, as masked swordsman Zorro, he can engineer the overthrow of the despicable Colonel Huerta (Baker) and his troops. Zorro fights on behalf of the oppressed peasants with the help of Brother Francisco (Giampiero Albertini) and the beautiful Hortensia (Piccolo). WHY IT’S FUN: The character of Zorro dates all the way back to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century, and he’s been a reliable standard of film and TV, portrayed by everyone from Douglas Fairbanks to Antonio Banderas. (And I will admit a soft spot for George Hamilton’s hilariously spoofy turn in Zorro, the Gay Blade .) If you’re a fan of spaghetti Westerns — those wonderfully grimy and wildly entertaining horse operas that inspired Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Django Unchained — you’ll enjoy watching Italian day players pretending to be South American peasants. Delon puts a fun spin on the material, and director Tessari (most known for his contributions to the screenplay of A Fistful of Dollars ) keeps thing exhilarating and exciting. This was my first Zorro movie as a child — it played theatrically in 1976 and then seemed to air perpetually on television soon thereafter — and it imprinted on me for life. (As did the catchy theme song, which will never, ever leave your head after you hear it.) WHY YOU SHOULD BUY IT (AGAIN): This Blu-Ray debut offers up a few extras, including trailers and radio spots, biographies of Delon and Tessari, and side-by-side comparisons that demonstrate how much better the digital restoration makes this zippy Euro-adventure look. READ MORE HIGH & LOW ON DVD! Alonso Duralde has written about film for The Wrap, Salon and MSNBC.com. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and regularly appears on What the Flick?! (The Young Turks Network). He is a senior programmer for the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and a pre-screener for the Sundance Film Festival. He also the author of two books: Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (Limelight Editions) and 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men (Advocate Books). Follow Alonso Duralde on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and here at Skin Central we are spankful for the hearty helping of nudes this week on DVD and Blu-ray. Kicking things off is the eye opening first season of Game of Thrones now available in collector’s edition. You can revisit Emilia Clarke’ s burning hot nude scenes in the Anatomy Award winning show, plus the lusty lesbo antics of Esme Bianco and Sahara Knite in glorious high-def. Winter won’t be the only thing coming! Also releasing is Tarantino XX : an 8-Film Collection from the lauded director featuring such classics as Patricia Arquette ’s patties in True Romance (1993) and Bridget Fonda ’s buns in Jackie Brown (1997). That’ll put some grind in your grindhouse! Finally, there is the Kris Kristofferson epic, Heaven’s Gate (1980), featuring the heaving hoots and hairpie of the incomparable Isabelle Huppert . See pics after the jump!
Some nude scenes are worth revisiting, like the remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), which hits Blu-ray this week. The skintage classic features the fantastic funbags and fur of top-heavy temptress Jessica Lange , plus a rare pokie peek from Anjelica Huston . Also releasing is the French drama A Burning Hot Summer (2011) which includes the bountiful bonbons of the magnificent Monica Bellucci , and French fox Alexia Landeau lets a nipple slipple while doing yoga in 2 Days in New York (2012). See pics after the jump!
The people behind The Hobbit are no fans of what they perceive as imitators. Warner Bros., New Line Cinema and MGM as well as Hobbit producer Saul Zaentz are taking backers of low-budget pic Age of the Hobbits for trademark infringement. The plaintiffs say that movie label The Asylum, which is behind a slate of “mock-busters” that spoof Hollywood movies, is “free-riding on the marketing campaign of Peter Jackson’s upcoming string of Hobbit pics, beginning next month with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey . Producers of the Jackson film called Age of the Hobbits an “international and willful attempt to trade on the popularity and goodwill” of the filmmaker’s The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, according to BBC. And producers are not looking for any compromise either. They are asking for all “infringing and ad materials and packaging for The Asylum’s Hobbit to be destroyed, claiming it may “divert customers and potential customers away from the Hobbit films.” The Zaentz Co which controls the trademark rights to the Tolkien book has also threatened legal action. Age of the Hobbits is due for a DVD and online release December 11th, just three days before the U.S. opening of Jackson’s Hobbit . “Age of the Hobbits is about the real-life human subspecies, Homo Floresiensis, discovered in 2003 in Indonesia, which have been uniformly referred to as ‘Hobbits’ in the scientific community,” noted Asylum in a statement, adding that it is therefore “protected under the legal doctrines of nominal and traditional fair use.” Aylum also said a Google search of ‘hobbits’ and archaeology would turn up a dozen of disparate articles. Asylum’s previous “mock-busters” include Transmorphers , based on Michael Bay’s big budget movie Transformers , and The Da Vinci Treasure , which took its name from The Da Vinci Code , directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks. [Source: BBC ]
