YouTube sensation tours New York City with MTV News as he talks about JBiebs, cover songs and his love for Los Angeles. By Christina Garibaldi Ryan Beatty Photo: MTV News
‘You out your league talking about me,’ 50 tweeted, responding to a dis the ‘Pop That’ rapper made in a Complex.com interview. By Rob Markman 50 Cent and French Montana Photo: Chris McKay/ Getty Images
Things were looking pretty dismal for skin this week on DVD and Blu-ray, but then the SKINstant classics Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007) swooped in on Blu-ray to save the day with a bevy of naked Euro babes (and Heather Matarazzo , aka “Weiner Dog”, fully nude in Part II, if that’s your thing). Other than that, your only choice for nudes this week is French fox Vahina Giocante topless alongside non-nude stars Jennifer Tilly and Paz de la Huerta in the ensemble rom-com 30 Beats (2012). And this week in non-nude blockbusters, Malin Akerman goes ’80s crazy in Rock of Ages (2012) and Charlize Theron and Noomi Rapace are out of this world in the sci-fi head scratcher Prometheus (2012). More after the jump!
Also in Monday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs: Oscar-winner Alex Gibney is boarding the new CNN Films for doc projects. The Weinstein Company scores first Oscar DVD mailer for one of its titles. And Girls ‘ Lena Dunham scores cha-ching for a book project. Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 to Premiere at Rome Film Festival Though the upcoming festival has scored the world premiere of the final installment of the mega-franchise, stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson will not be in Rome for the premiere. The pic directed by Bill Condon will screen in the Alice in the City section of the festival, which focuses on films oriented for a youth audience, THR reports . Hungry Hungry Hippos to Get Big Screen Outing Hungry Hungry Hippos is part of a roster of planned films that also includes Monopoly (a project that at one point had Ridley Scott attached) and Britain’s Action Man, the latter despite his American cousin GI Joe having already featured twice in multiplexes. Hasbro has been inspired by the multibillion-dollar success of its Transformers franchise in the hands of Michael Bay, and apparently has not let Battleship’s disappointing $300m (on a $200m budget) haul earlier this year upset its plans for worldwide domination, The Guardian reports . Alex Gibney Strikes Deal to Make Docs for New CNN Films Unit Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney ( Taxi to the Dark Side ) and director Andrew Ross ( Page One: Inside the New York Times ) has signed on to develop docs for the new CNN Films. CNN Films will kick off with Richard Robbins’ Girl Rising , THR reports . Weinstein Company’s The Intouchables is First Official 2012 Oscar Screener Mailed to Members TWC is the first to send out a DVD screener to Academy members. Every member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences received a screener of the hit French film over the weekend. The Intouchables is France’s entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar consideration and has grossed $360 million worldwide, Deadline reports . Lena Dunham Book Goes for $3.5 Million to Random House Her SXSW title eventually grossed $392K, but it got her a gig with HBO and the subsequent Girls series. Now, the filmmaker/TV star has landed a book deal for upwards of $3.5 million for Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned , Deadline reports .
Did you just see that glass of water tremble à la Jurassic Park ? Could that distant rumbling be Harvey Weinstein barreling T-Rex style down the endless red carpet leading to the Kodak Theater in February? Indeed, with the announcement this week that Seth McFarlane will be hosting the 85th Academy Awards , Oscar season is now officially under way. Screeners and For Your Consideration ads shall soon be raining down upon us. So this seems as good an occasion as any to assess the buzz around Oscar hopefuls in the major categories. Prognosticating about the Oscars so early in the race, when many of the most anticipated prestige movies of the year ( Lincoln, Django Unchained, Les Miserables ) remain to be seen, may be premature, like discussing the prospect of a Gingrich/Perry 2012 ticket a year ago. But what self-respecting pundit waits to be fully informed? After all, the jockeying has already begun . BEST PICTURE ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Like last year, there could be as few as five and as many as ten nominees in this category. The locks so far are Lincoln (a biopic of Abraham Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg could be made with animated stick figures and it would still be a shoo-in—actually, I’d like to see that…); Les Misérables (a lavish, crowd-pleasing period musical that couldn’t be more upfront about its Oscar ambitions); and Argo (Ben Affleck’s film about a CIA hostage rescue mission in Tehran under the guise of a Hollywood production — Zero Dark Thirty meets Tropic Thunder ? — got a terrific jump out of the Telluride and Toronto gates). Silver Linings Playbook , a romantic comedy with just enough of a serious edge to please Oscar voters, also had a solid Toronto run. Ang Lee’s lyrical Life of Pi delighted New York Film Festival audiences last week and there’s every reason to believe the Academy will be just as enchanted, especially since there’s a feeling Lee was screwed over when Crash was voted best picture over Brokeback Mountain in 2005. I’d be surprised if The Master didn’t get nominated for best picture, but Kristopher Tapley and Anne Thompson over at Indiewire point out that, while the acting and cinematography are spectacular, the film itself left many critics cold. Michael Haneke’s rueful rumination on love and death, Amour , which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a bit of a long shot since it’s in French. But if Weinstein, who is distributing the film in the U.S., can get a French silent film a best picture Oscar, as he did last year with The Artist , there’s no saying what he can do with a French talkie. Rounding out the frontrunners is the oneiric bayou fantasy Beasts of the Southern Wild, which could provide this Oscar season’s feel-good, indie underdog narrative. (NB: This category will be shaken up in December, when many major contenders will be released, including Django Unchained ; The Hobbit ; Promised Land ; Zero Dark Thirty ; and The Impossible .) BEST DIRECTOR Ben Affleck Back in 1998, we all made jokes about how Ben Affleck was the luckiest man alive for tying his fate to Matt Damon’s and winning a screenwriting Oscar. But Affleck, who’s proven to be one of the best mainstream directors of his generation, may well get the last laugh — in addition to a nomination for helming Argo . Spielberg’s seat at this table has been booked for years. The Master auteur Paul Thomas Anderson is a near lock, too. Les Miserables director Tom Hooper, who won this award two years ago for The King’s Speech , will almost certainly get recognition for his use of live-action singing, which, to believe the featurette Universal put out last week, has never been attempted before in a musical of this scope. The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow could get a shot at a repeat victory with Zero Dark Thirty . The same goes for Ang Lee, who took home the best-director consolation prize in 2005, and breaks new ground this year with his innovative use of 3D in Life of Pi . If David O. Russell’s reputation as an on-set tyrant hasn’t blacklisted him so far — and judging from his 2010 nomination for The Fighter, it hasn’t — there’s a good chance he’ll get a nod for Silver Linings Playbook . Rounding out the category are heavy hitters Robert Zemeckis ( Flight ), Peter Jackson ( The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ); and Quentin Tarantino ( Django Unchained ).
We know what you’re thinking. “I thought that that French girl was in Deadfal l , not Olivia Wilde .” We know, we thought that too. But that’s Skyfall . This is Deadfall . Anyway, this not-Bond movie stars Olivia Wilde as one half of a brother-sister con artist duo alongside Eric Bana . When a car crash derails their plans to escape to Canada after a casino heist, these larcenous siblings are split up only to be reunited in a hostage/Thanksgiving-dinner scene that appears to play out along the lines of Killer Joe (2011) by way of the Coen Brothers. But the important part of this story for Mr. Skin is that Olivia has a topless scene in the movie, her first since 2006’s Alpha Dog . Deadfall doesn’t hit theaters until November 21 , but thanks to the magic of the internet we can preview her motel room tryst with co-star Charlie Hunnam … for t he time being, anyway. See more screencaps of Olivia Wilde topless in Deadfall (2012) after the jump!
No matter how hard they try, it’s highly unlikely any actress/singer/starlet will ever come close to portraying famed Depression-era outlaw Bonnie Parker like Faye Dunaway did in Arthur Penn’s game-changing Bonnie and Clyde . But no matter! That won’t stop Miley Cyrus from being the latest to give the fantastically stylish bank robber a try , as she’s slated to do in the four-hour History Channel/Lifetime miniseries Bonnie & Clyde . Parker and her paramour Clyde Barrow have been depicted about a dozen times in TV and film dating back to 1958’s The Bonnie Parker Story , starring WB player Dorothy Provine. ( Her story, see what I did there?) Once Penn’s classic burst onto the cinescape and tommy gunned its way into film history — helped along in no small part by Dunaway, who was Oscar-nominated for her turn as Parker — no film or television property has successfully made a mark retelling the Parker-Barrow lore. But the reckless romanticism of their tale is too rich to ignore; hence, the many musical iterations of the Bonnie & Clyde mythos. Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot channeled the duo for their 1968 collaboration album Bonnie and Clyde , headlined by the titular track featuring Bardot’s sensual cooing; in Parker’s signature beret, Bardot is the vision of Bonnie Parker’s sensual French reincarnate. Many others have paid homage to this homage in turn, including actress Scarlett Johansson, who whisper-crooned her way through a 2011 cover with Gainsbourg’s son Lulu. My favorite post-Gainsbourg musical riff on the duo? Jay-Z and Beyonce’s “’03 Bonnie and Clyde,” which itself uses a sample of Tupac’s 1996 track “Me and My Girlfriend,” a song inspired by Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde film. More recently, former tween idol Hilary Duff was set to play Parker until she was dropped due to pregnancy (infamously collecting $100,000 in her pay or play deal for doing next to nothing). I think we can all agree we dodged a bullet there, although the project was recast with True Blood ‘s Lindsay Pulsipher and apparently is still happening. So now comes Miley Cyrus to breathe good girl-gone-bad life into four hours of Bonnie and Clyde . I’m sure she, like all who’ve come before, feels a deep and soulful connection to the spirit of Bonnie Parker. The question is, how much peroxide and cigars will it take for her to be able to disappear into the role? (And is a Cyrus cover of that Gainsbourg classic inevitable/unavoidable?) [via Deadline ] Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
‘I started looking at my father in a different light,’ rapper reveals to Fader magazine in cover story. By Rob Markman French Montana in Fader magazine Photo: Fader
Can’t a guy go to the town fall harvest festival in peace anymore? Yeesh. You gotta watch the clip below and see the look given by a scared and thoroughly confused baby to a reporter trying to “interview” it for the local news. This is actually the expression most of us have when we see reporters …
A Swedish celebrity gossip magazine has just published photos of Kate Middleton topless and its sister publication in Denmark says it will follow suit this week. The unauthorized Kate Middleton photos have already been widely published in France, Italy, Ireland and on the Internet, despite the royal family’s best efforts. The latest publication in Sweden’s Se & Hor came as French police opened a criminal investigation into whether the infamous pics were an invasion of privacy. “It is nothing new to us to publish nude photos of celebrities on holiday,” said Carina Lofkvist, the chief editor of the Swedish celebrity magazine, on Thursday. She said Kate Moss, Demi Moore and Sharon Stone have all done the same thing. “No one complains when they do and we print the photos,” Lofkvist said. Sister publication Se & Hoer in Denmark will publish the pictures as well; they were offered 240 Kate Middleton photos but decided only to use 60-70 of them. Both magazines declined to say who specifically sold them the images or how much money they paid to acquire them, but it’s safe to say it wasn’t cheap. In France, a court ordered police to obtain information on Closer magazine employees after Kate and Prince William filed a criminal complaint against it. Marie-Christine Daubigney, an assistant prosecutor, said she instructed police to get the names of some Closer employees, including who wrote the article. Daubigney denied as “completely untrue” media reports that police raided Closer headquarters, but the magazine has been ordered to turn over all copies. While the royal family has already won some legal victories in a bid to stop the pics, they may be fighting a losing battle at the current rate of dissemination. The scandal has set off debate over the limits of celebrity media coverage in this age. There are plenty of Kate sympathizers … and there’s Donald Trump . Your take: Is Kate at all to blame for the scandal?
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