Actor loses his job as narrator of the PBS show ‘Market Warriors’ after the Wednesday night arrest at a movie theater. By Kara Warner Fred Willard Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images
‘I bet you he would get right back into it,’ Burton predicted of Michael Keaton’s ability to revisit the ghost with the most. By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Michael Keaton Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Kate Major is reportedly pregnant with Michael Lohan’s baby, and all we have to say it: Ummm…. congratulations? The very-much-on/even-more-off couple has not officially been an item in months. In fact, Major called the police on Lohan as recently as April, claiming he showed up at her place of work and refused to leave. Michael, however, asserted at the time that the twosome were actually shacking up… despite Kate actually having a restraining order against her supposed boyfriend. The pregnancy, first reported by TMZ, appears to back up Michael’s account. A rep for the couple confirms Major is expecting , and an insider says she’s in her first trimester. Yes, this means the baby was actually conceived when his/her father was legally barred from having contact with his/her mother. That’s just hilarious. Incredibly, impending half-sister Lindsay Lohan may be the most stable relative this poor child ends up with.
‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ writer and artist Kevin Eastman tells MTV at Comic-Con that he fully supports Michael Bay’s reboot. By Terri Schwartz, with reporting by Steven Smith Kevin Eastman Photo: MTV Geek
From the days of Adam West’s ‘Batman’ through ‘Dark Knight Rises,’ every Batmobile is on hand at San Diego Comic-Con. By Josh Wigler Michael Keaton’s Batmobile from “Batman” and “Batman Returns” at Comic-Con Photo: MTV News
‘Breaking Dawn’ star tells MTV News that Comic-Con is ‘a really, really high-intensity show.’ By Kara Warner Robert Pattinson at Comic-Con International 2012 Photo: Michael Buckner/ Getty Images
Rocker says in a statement that he intends to return to his ‘first love,’ Aerosmith. By Amy Wilkinson Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson on “American Idol” Photo: Michael Becker / FOX
Also in Wednesday morning’s round-up of news briefs, Charlie Sheen takes a bite at Axl Rose at a Slash Walk of Fame ceremony. Jason Bateman is heading behind the camera (and in front) for his directorial debut. And new projects for Anna Kendrick and Adam Brody. Mid-Year Box Office Report: What’s Worrying Hollywood The 3-D juggernaut has seen a steady decline. “Across Hollywood, studio executives say the dips point to a sea change in habits that have left the first half of the year littered with heartbreak: Cash-conscious consumers are becoming more discerning about what movies they see, 3D or otherwise,” THR reports . Charlie Sheen Grabs Spotlight at Slash Walk of Fame Event The Anger Management star took a bite out of former Guns & Roses frontman at a ceremony honoring G&R guitarist Slash with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, saying, “It’s quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on,” THR reports . Russell Crowe Morphs into Dracula Eli Roth ( Hostel ) will direct the thriller Harker for Warner Bros, which will star Crowe as Dracula. The plot revolves around a Scotland Yard detective who tracks the vampire, Deadline reports . Jason Bateman to Add ‘Director’ to Resumé Bateman is in negotiations to make his directorial debut with indie comedy Bad Words , that his Aggregate Films label will produce with Darko Films. He’ll likely play the main character which revolves around a bitter thirtysomething who uses a loophole in the system to enter a national kids’ spelling bee, Variety reports . Anna Kendrick Toasts Drinking Buddies She will play the lead in the indie comedy directed by Joe Swanberg. The film begins shooting in Chicago later this month, Deadline reports . Adam Brody Boards All the Wrong Reasons He’ll play the lead in the indie by Gia Milani about four friends who wander around New York over the course of an eventful day, Variety reports .
From the three albums planned for this fall/winter to the two corresponding band documentaries, one just isn’t enough for Billie Joe Armstrong and Co.: “Filmmakers Tim Lynch, a producer of Green Day: Bullet in a Bible , and Tim Wheeler, a co-producer and editor of The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights , are creating a documentary on the making of the three albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tre! A second documentary is being created from vintage footage from their pre- Dookie days. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong tells Billboard.biz that ‘the two Tims’ have shot the band performing in clubs, rehearsing and recording over the last year and a half. ‘It’s not going to be the sitting down, head shot of me going “we started out blah blah blah,”‘ Armstrong says. ‘We wanted to get into lifestyles of rock’n’roll and playing rock’n’roll and letting the story kind of tell itself rather than create revisionist (history).'” Sundance premieres are planned, naturally. [ Billboard via The Film Stage ]
Say what you will about Michael Jackson. He was the self-anointed King of Pop, but legions of fans around the world were his willing subjects for decades, crossing generations. So there is at least a reasonable in-house audience just itching for more about the moon-walker and Spike Lee is just the man to deliver. Lee and Jackson were friends in life and the filmmaker, whose Red Hook Summer opens next month, is working on a documentary tied to the 25th anniversary of the release of Jackson’s Bad album. And Lee has apparently come across a lot of material for the film-in-progress. He told the A.P. it’s a “treasure chest of findings” including footage the star shot himself from behind-the-scenes. “We had complete access to the vaults of Michael Jackson,” Lee said. “He wrote 60 demos for the Bad record. Only 11 made it. So we got to hear a lot of that stuff, too, so it was just a great experience.” Still untitled, Lee said that the film will be appealing to those who are not Michael Jackson fans. The doc will also show a personal side of the pop legend. “He had a great sense of humor and he was funny,” said Lee who interviewed Kanye West and Mariah Carey for the film. He also spoke to Sheryl Crow who was a background singer during Jackson’s Bad tour. “We really divided it into two things: Artists today who were influenced by Michael and then people who worked side by side…” Loyalists and new converts have been gobbling up Michael Jackson’s music since his death in 2009 at age 50 and the powers-that-be are very happy to oblige. The follow-up to the singer’s Thriller album, Bad includes hits “Smooth Criminal” and “The Way You Make Me Feel.” It will be re-released with additional tracks, a DVD and other goodies September 18th. Jackson would have turned 54 on August 29th. [Source: A.P. ]
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