We’ve got more TV nudes than you can shake your stick at this week on the boob tube, including an outstanding triple-B nude debut from former WWE Diva Taryn Terrell on this week’s Treme , Hannah Ware ‘s spectacular return to nudity in an intense sex scene on Boss , more T&A from Irish eyeful Heather Lind on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire , and a quick fix of webcam tits from Brittany Slattery on the latest episode of Dexter. See pics of this week’s nude scenes from Treme , Boss , Boardwalk Empire and Dexter after the jump!
New in theaters, Winona Ryder lends her voice to the animated kids’ flick Frankenweenie , but to get a Winona bonah, check out her nip slip in Sex and Death 101 (2007) instead. On Blu-ray, J essica Marais and Olga Kurylenko lead the outstanding nude cast of Starz’ Magic City , and on the boob tube Marin Ireland will get your Irish up with her nude debut on Boss .
The Kate Middleton photo scandal has come roaring back with the publication of even more (and clearer) images in Scandinavian gossip magazine Se og Hør this week. The magazine’s editor quickly defended the move. “We are a leading gossip magazine in Denmark, and it is my job to publish them,” Kim Henningsen said of the Kate Middleton topless (and bottomless) images. Taken with a long lens, the images – basically the same as the ones published previously in French and Irish magazines – show Kate in a bikini … and then not in a bikini. A rep for the royals declined comment, saying, “Our stance is the same as before – we aren’t commenting save to say all proportionate legal responses will be kept under review.” Take a look at the [NSFW] Kate Middleton photos after the jump:
“Directing a movie is not that much different than producing albums. It’s working with talent and guiding them,” says Jim Akin, who makes his directorial debut at 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday with the premiere of After The Triumph of Your Birth at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, California. Akin is better known as the husband and bass player for singer/songwriter Maria McKee, formerly of the alt-country band Lone Justice. She co-produced the movie and co-wrote its score with Akin, and though Martin Scorsese once directed her in Robbie Robertson’s “Somewhere Down The Crazy River” music video, she counts this as her first real acting role. What’s the movie about? That’s a tough question, Akin told me. “I’ve tried about a dozen times to come up with an answer, and I can’t do it,” he said. So, he asked his wife to do it for him. “It’s been called a road movie on foot,” said McKee. “It’s been called a tone poem. My Irish friends said it was Joycean — a man’s philosophical journey. And during his sojourning, he meets a number of surreal characters along the way.” Judging from the trailer, which is posted below, David Lynch and tough-guy poet Charles Bukowski are also influences, particularly when the protagonist is heard in voiceover saying: “I was a bystander doing a death waltz through the shit parade of suicide highway.” “I like the idea of a man working through his existence and his identity and his place in life, and trying to make peace with that,” Akin finally volunteered. That man is McKee’s drummer Tom Dunne, whose story arc takes him from the desert to the ocean on foot. The characters whose paths he crosses are local actors and friends of Akin and McKee who, the first-time filmmaker said, “wanted to be part of the experience.” Akin said that their generosity was one of the factors that enabled him to make the picture for the hard-to-believe sum of $550. “I did the writing, the shooting and the sound, the locations and the editing,” he explained. “Maria worked with me on the score.” Akin added that he kept the production costs minimal because “I didn’t want to borrow money or risk money because then I would feel more free about my ideas.” McKee, who plays a musician in After the Triumph of Your Birth calls the role “my first non-singing job in front of the camera,” although she does perform “One True Love,” which Akin wrote, at a piano, and an a cappella prayer. (She also sings on the soundtrack, on which Akin also appears as his recording alter ego, The Shootist.) People have been trying to get me to act since I was 16,” McKee said. “But I never wanted to be an actress per se because I wanted control over the material. My relationship with Jim is ideal. We were able to work together and shape the material in an intimate way.” After the premiere at the Aero, McKee and Akin will treat guests to a musical performance. If you can’t make it, the movie will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray disc on Sept. 18. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Also in Tuesday afternoon’s round-up of news briefs, AMC Entertainment’s acquisition is now complete. After Dark Films eyes a horror. The Dark Knight Rises passes another box office milestone. And Jim Carrey is confirmed for a Kick-Ass role. Harmony Korine’s Venice/Toronto Film Spring Breakers Headed to U.S. Theaters U.S. rights to the film have been picked up by Annapurna Pictures. Starring James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Heather Morris, and Gucci Mane, Spring Breakers is a college pop-culture and music-fueled story following the adventure of four young girls gone wild on spring break. As part of the main competition, the film will receive its worldwide premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, September 5th followed by a North American premiere set for Friday, September 7th at the Toronto International Film Festival. Wanda Group Completes AMC Entertainment Acquisition Chinese company Dalian Wanda Group said it has completed its acquisition of AMC Entertainment Holdings, creating the world’s largest cinema owner. The transaction is valued at about $2.6 billion. “We now look forward to working with AMC’s CEO Gerry Lopez and his team to invest in and build on the company’s widely-recognized brand and the incomparable entertainment experience AMC offers to its millions of customers,” said Wanda president Wang Jianlin. After Dark Eyes Horror Script Beatus After Dark Films is looking to pick up the script to Beatus , by writing-duo, Kristen Ruhlin and Tony Repinski. The story revolves around a girl who expereinces symptoms of the Stigmata and discovers that true evil maybe within the walls of the church. Repinski and Ruhlin worked together previously on the horror, DarkHighway . Around the ‘net… Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson to Take On Frank Fassbender and Gleeson will star in Lenny Abrahamson’s next project Frank . Film4 will co-finance with the Irish Film Board. It is described as a comedy about a young wannabe musician, played by Gleeson, who discovers he’s taken on more than he can handle when joining an eccentric pop band lead by Frank (Fassbender). THR reports . The Dark Knight Rises Is 2nd Film to Pass $100M on IMAX Avatar was the first to pass the milestone. The numbers include domestic and overseas grosses, Deadline reports . Jim Carrey Takes Colonel Role in Kick-Ass 2 Carrey will play the role of the Colonel in the Jeff Wadlow-directed sequel. Carrey will star with Chloe Moretz, Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage, Deadline reports .
If the last Presidential race produced a fine docudrama, Game Change , based on the equally fine book, surely this year’s dust-up between the elephant and the donkey is worth dramatizing. Therefore, , submitted for your approval, is Movieline ’s notion of ideal casting and concepts for the 2012 GOP slate, complete with courtiers, financiers and mountebanks. Tentatively, we’re calling it Liar’s Poker . Let’s start at the outer circle of the power nexus and gradually move inward. John Sununu: Newspersons on the convention floor insisted no one was more excited during Wednesday night’s vitriolic Dem-bashing session than the former New Hampshire governor. We’d like to see the corpulent billy goat played by James Gandolfini, with a pursed scowl and a goiterous prosthetic under his chin. Scott Walker: The Wisconsin governor — who escaped being recalled after his campaign to disenfranchise that dangerous enemy, the state’s educators — could only be played by Vincent Kartheiser. The Mad Men actor would need to do it in Pete Campbell mode, perhaps removing what shreds of humanity and judgment Campbell exhibits to show that paradoxical phenomenon, a dead-eyed zealot. Sheldon Adelson: Shortly after Romney announced the ascension to running mate of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan — don’t worry, we’re getting to him — the Wisconsin congressman jetted to Las Vegas to meet with the casino-owning plutocrat, who’s under investigation via the Corrupt Foreign Practices Act. In our movie, Adelson would be represented by a doctored hologram of Goldfinger Bond villain Gert Frobe . Charles Koch: While we’re stacking up shot callers, why not add in what we’ve always supposed was the cuddly Koch brother, played by The Colbert Report namesake and fellow Super PAC maestro Stephen Colbert (after a salt-and-pepper dye job). It could be a recurring role in the sequel — should the GOP win, Koch will be dictating a lot of policy behind the scenes, Nucky Thompson-style. Chris Christie: Speaking of Jersey devils, the Garden State’s governor reminds us oratorically of Broderick Crawford haranguing his fellow hicks in All the King’s Men . But to conjure up Christie’s trademark spasms of sputtering resentment, we’ll have to go with John Goodman in full Walter Sobchak mode from The Big Lebowski . Put him next to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal — is it too ethnocentric to suggest Dev Patel in age makeup as his re-enactor? — and you’ve got both sides of the big and small governor divide covered. Karl Rove: Could a smoke-filled room of Republican strategists be complete without the man Bush 43 — now only to be found on fading posters, milk cartons and brief, flatulent sizzle reels — called “Turd Blossom”? We like the idea of Philip Seymour Hoffman portraying Karl Rove. Paul Ryan: Now, if we’re really serious about licking socialism, about crushing the Ellsworth M. Tooheys and freedom haters, we need the party’s newly minted charismatic, Ryan himself. We need someone in his early 40s with an obviously fit torso, a beady-eyed, intense presence…Tom Cruise? They have the same falcon’s profile, a shared missionary zeal. But Cruise has been there, done that. He played a magnetic, striving Republican presidential wanna-be in the generally unloved Lions for Lambs . Why risk it? So, maybe Zachary Quinto? Smart actor, a screenwriter ( Margin Call ) of in his own right. But can he bring the sexy? Nah. A rehabbed Charlie Sheen? RPatz? Some wags have suggested Zach Woods, who plays the geeky middle manager Gabe on The Office , but again, he doesn’t have the pecs. Good Lord, Crispin Glover? Actually, it’s got to be Jake Gyllenhaal. Remember him in Rendition , telling his bloody-minded boss, Meryl Streep, “This is my first torture”? Jake has the chops to show the inner agonies of Ryan as the ideologue takes a spiritual haircut to bring his thoughts on abortion and even the budget in line with Romney’s non-positions. Dick Cheney: In a Kubrickian touch, we’ll show the Catholic deer hunter (his brag) shooting skeet on the White House lawn with his stooped and stolid Republican predecessor, played by Richard Dreyfuss, natch. Janna Ryan: Watching from nearby with a worried expression will be the 2012 vice presidential candidate’s pretty wife, Janna, who resembles Anne Coulter without the devouring rage and — well, let’s just keep this gentlemanly. Jessica Chastain, a veteran of the mute performance from working with Malick, can stand in. Ann Romney: Of course, there’s the presidential candidate’s wife in a poignant secondary role. Aces at pubic speaking, a courageous warrior against her afflictions, she’s deservedly popular. We like Felicity Huffman, fresh from Desperate Housewives , with some equitation lessons and a big jug of peroxide. Willard “Mitt” Romney: He is, of course, the key casting challenge. Playing the absence of human presence is a feat, and choosing someone who’s merely boring is a dangerous choice. Perhaps Stephen Collins, who’s a canny enough performer (e.g., The Three Stooges ) to make vapidity sing? How do you reveal the soul of a man who seemingly learned his affect from the dead presidents on Mt. Rushmore — a figure described by Chris Matthews after Ann Romney’s speech as “almost a statue of a person…a Conehead who doesn’t seem like an earthling”? Actually, what’s needed is a classic actor’s touch. Perhaps another hologram, deploying Montgomery Clift, just a shade less numbed than the victim of Nazism he played in Judgment at Nuremberg . The Cliftian genius at showing the searching, slightly haunted eyes, the brain-snatched stop-start verbal tics, and the nervous half-smile, has to win the day. Of course, we’ll need Mitt to sign off on that casting; we don’t want to see Clift, even in hologram form, getting summarily fired, as in “I’m going to go get someone else to provide that service to me.” So, there you have it — oh, shoot, we forgot Seamus. Somewhere out there must be a descendant of Nixon’s Irish setter, King Timahoe. Of course, that worthy was coddled around Camp David and the Rose Garden, and the Presidential pooch this time needs to be made of sterner stuff. So don’t bother to propose your dog for the gig unless it has the genes for a long afternoon in the wind. Fred Schruers, a freelance writer living in Los Angeles, has contributed to Rolling Stone, Premiere , the Los Angeles Times , and many other publications. Follow Fred Schruers on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
The last time Karen Allen was onscreen, according to IMDB.com, was back in 2010 in White Irish Drinkers , and, if like me, you miss her soulful presence at the cineplex, it’s time to start planning a trip to New York City in October. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long announced on Monday that Allen will star in the American premiere of Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse’s Summer Day this fall. Sarah Cameron Sunde will translate and direct the play. In its announcement, Rattlestick described Fosse’s play as a “deep meditation on the nature of loss” that is set in two time periods in the same idyllic house. According to the theater company, “a visit to an old friend sparks the memory of a similar visit years earlier.” Allen, who stole hearts and scenes with her wide-eyed performances in Animal House and Raiders of the Lost Ark made her Broadway debut in the early 1980s where she played Helen Keller in William Gibson’s Monday After The Miracle . In 1983, she won a Theatre World Award for her performance. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
The last time Karen Allen was onscreen, according to IMDB.com, was back in 2010 in White Irish Drinkers , and, if like me, you miss her soulful presence at the cineplex, it’s time to start planning a trip to New York City in October. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long announced on Monday that Allen will star in the American premiere of Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse’s Summer Day this fall. Sarah Cameron Sunde will translate and direct the play. In its announcement, Rattlestick described Fosse’s play as a “deep meditation on the nature of loss” that is set in two time periods in the same idyllic house. According to the theater company, “a visit to an old friend sparks the memory of a similar visit years earlier.” Allen, who stole hearts and scenes with her wide-eyed performances in Animal House and Raiders of the Lost Ark made her Broadway debut in the early 1980s where she played Helen Keller in William Gibson’s Monday After The Miracle . In 1983, she won a Theatre World Award for her performance. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
A new promotional photo from Breaking Dawn Part II shows the various covens that unite to defend Edward, Bella, Renesmee and the rest of the Cullens. To protect them against the vengeful Volturi, of course. Pictured are the American Nomad, the Amazon coven, the Egyptian coven, the Denali coven, Carlisle Cullen and family, the Irish coven and many others. The epic vampire battle begins November 16 … In addition to this pic and seven minutes of new footage shown at Comic-Con , Summit also released a dozen new posters for the Twilight Saga’s final chapter. Noticeably absent are the big three – Robert Pattinson ‘s Edward Cullen, Kristen Stewart’s Bella Swan and Taylor Lautner’s Jacob Black – but we can only assume a mega-reveal of posters for that trio is still to come in the near future. Click to enlarge the new character posters below …
It’s not as though Peter O’Toole died this week when he announced his retirement from acting, but contemplating the Irish great’s absence from stage and screen alike nevertheless yields a bittersweet fog of remembrance through which our hearts and souls must now navigate. I think they call it a “hangover.” Thankfully, there is video (to say nothing of the gloriously soggy moment in time, above, when Roger Ebert and Jason Patric found themselves supporting the legend). For my money, nothing beats his epic entrance on a 1995 episode of The Late Show , where David Letterman welcomed O’Toole and a thirsty camel named Topsy to the stage in London. What happened next put Lawrence of Arabia to shame. Previously, during a drunken stint on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show , O’Toole had confessed to… another drunken stint on The Tonight Show . And who will ever forget (ahem) O’Toole’s celebrated performance as the sodden title character in Keith Waterhouses’s play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell ? (Dialogue NSFW, though under the circumstances what could possibly go wrong with slowly turning your chair to your boss and/or any other objecting parties and woozily sputtering, “It’s Peter O’Fucking Toole . Listen!”) Here he is duetting with — and tackling, naturally — his late, lamented contemporary Richard Harris ahead of a rugby match in Ireland. It’s not quite O’Toole, but back on The Late Show in 2011, you can practically taste the sauce in Ryan Gosling’s tale of confronting the actor on Oscar night a few years earlier. And just for fun, here’s Bill Hader helping to cement O’Toole’s legacy, SNL style: Oh! And he acted in a few things en route to becoming the losingest (0-for-8, ouch) acting nominee in the history of the Academy Awards. He did, however, deliver a reasonably sober acceptance speech for the honorary Oscar he received (despite trying to refuse ) in 2003. By way of our partners at ENTV, here’s a run through O’Toole’s screen highlights. Happy retirement, Peter! We’ll send whiskey. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
