The Jolie-Pitt brood appear to have caught the acting bug from their folks. Last August, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ‘s four-year-old daughter was cast as the young Princess Aurora in Maleficent , starring her superstar mother in the title role. Now, two siblings are set to join the production, and with a 2014 release date, could there be room for more? Jolie and Pitt’s son Pax, 8, and daughter Zahara, 7, are also set to appear in the big screen spin on the Sleeping Beauty tale, Us Weekly reports, adding that their parts will be small and they will not have speaking roles. Four year-old Vivienne joined the Maleficent cast as the young Princess Aurora. She eventually grows up to be the enemy to the evil Maleficent. Walt Disney Productions confirmed the addition in August. Daughter Shiloh, 6, meanwhile also nearly appeared in the movie, but she was apparently not in the mood during the day her part was supposed to shoot. She made an appearance in her dad’s feature The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008. Maleficent , directed by Robert Stromberg ( Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ), also stars Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Miranda Richardson, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville. It is slated for a 3-D release in March, 2014. The pic retells the Sleeping Beauty story from the POV of villainess Maleficent. Fourteen year-old Fanning will play the grown-up Princess Aurora and gave a shout-out to Jolie in a recent E! News interview. “She’s so elegant. She looks just amazing as Maleficent, all her costumes and her makeup. You know, it’s like an elegant scary—sort of spooky. But you get used to it…It’s perfect.” [ Sources: Huffington Post , Yahoo , Us Weekly, E! ]
This week’s Low(brow) choice may have been a box-office-record-smashing mass-appeal hit, but it’s also a genre classic that sneaks a healthy dollop of wit and even subtlety into its comic-book storyline. On the High side: two swoony love stories from a modern master . With movies this good, labeling almost seems beside the point. HIGH: Wong Kar-Wai Blu-Ray Double Feature: Fallen Angels and Happy Together (Kino Lorber; $49.95 Blu-Ray) WHO’S RESPONSIBLE: Both films: Written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai. Casts: Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Karen Mok ( Angels ); Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung ( Happy ). WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT: Fallen Angels tells a tale originally designed to be part of Wong’s Chungking Express , about a lovesick hit man (Lai), a mute guy with a talent for breaking and entering (Kaneshiro) and a girl named Blondie (Mok). Although, as with most films by this auteur, what happens to these characters is less important than how they’re lit and what music they listen to. In the ironically-titled gay romance Happy Together , Lai (Leung) and Ho (Cheung) travel from Hong Kong to Argentina in an attempt to repair their thoroughly dysfunctional relationship. It doesn’t help. (The Tony Leung Chiu-Wai of this film starred in John Woo’s Hard-Boiled and Wong’s In the Mood for Love , and is not to be confused with Tony Leung Ka-fai from The Lover .) WHY IT’S SCHMANCY: Wong and his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Christopher Doyle, create heartbreaking visual tone poems that are unique among contemporary movies. These aren’t the kinds of films where you ask “What’s it about?” or “What happens?” Instead, you have to let them take you where they want — on their terms and at their own pace. But if you’re patient enough, Wong will guide you into his characters’ hearts and heads, and the rewards are immeasurable. In this context, a glance, a pop song or even a color can speak volumes. WHY YOU NEED TO BUY IT (AGAIN): Not every director’s work makes a big leap in going from regular DVD to hi-res Blu-Ray, but Doyle is one of the great visual artists in film right now, and the crisper you can see his amazing images, the better. (All the more reason to get psyched about the upcoming In the Mood for Love Blu-Ray coming next month from The Criterion Collection.) This double-feature collection doesn’t skimp on the extras, either: Angels offers three behind-the-scenes featurettes and an interview with Dolan. Happy Together includes a making-of doc ( Buenos Aires Zero Degree ) and a 2008 conversation with Wong from the Museum of the Moving Image. LOW: The Avengers (Walt Disney Home Entertainment; $29.99 DVD, $39.99 Two-Disc Blu-Ray Combo, $49.99 Four-Disc Blu-Ray Combo) WHO’S RESPONSIBLE: Written and directed by Joss Whedon, from a story by Whedon and Zak Penn, based on the comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; starring Robert Downey, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Clark Gregg. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT: Oh, like you don’t know: Loki (Tom Hiddleston) finally gets his hands on the Cosmic Cube that’s been bouncing through most of the previous Marvel superhero movies, and it takes the combined might of Iron Man (Downey), the Hulk (Ruffalo), Thor (Hemsworth), Captain America (Evans), Black Widow (Johansson) and Hawkeye (Renner) to save the planet from alien invasion. WHY IT’S FUN: Whedon gets the appeal of superhero comic books in the same way that Raiders of the Lost Ark demonstrated Lucas and Spielberg’s instinctual understanding of what made old-school adventure serials so fun. (For all the successes of the Spider-Man movies, for instance, you’d never know that the comic-book character was a one-liner-spouting sarcasm machine.) While Whedon never underplays the high stakes of the plot, he lets these characters be funny, bitchy and untrusting of each other before they bond through their shared adventures. It’s an epic, breathtaking pop thrill ride that doesn’t spare the smarts or the endorphins. WHY YOU SHOULD BUY IT: Seeing as how it’s one of the most successful movies ever made, The Avengers comes to home video in a number of different incarnations, including a four-disc set that includes a 3D Blu-Ray option. The extras themselves are plentiful, if not earth-shaking, and include a Whedon commentary, star-packed making-of shorts, a look at the visual effects, deleted scenes, a gag reel and a Soundgarden music video. And if you’re springing for the 3D set, you’ll get Item 47 , the first of a promised series of Avengers-related short films. 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.
I hate sports but as someone who loves offensive gestures on TV, this is the kind of thing I could get down to, you see I’m the kind of guy who likes pressing my dick in the window of fancy restaurants while couples look into each other’s eyes romantically, you know to help get the mood where it needs to be….in a fun place…where boring bullshit…becomes hysterical… Apparently he was doing this for an inning before being kicked out…an inning long enough to get famous doing frat boy bullshit….
In the mood for some supermodel ice-cream lickage? Here is Cindy Crawford spending time with her family at the Malibu Chili Cook-off while giving hot oral to the luckiest cone ever. What I’d do to trade places… Speaking of hot chicks and ice-cream, you should check out the sexiest ice-cream lady ever over here . And if you’re ever in Miami, tell her I say hi.
We’ve been telling you about Dreama Walker and her nude debut in Compliance (2012) ever since the movie caused a stir at Sundance back in January. But we gotta be honest– we’re not sure if we want to see it. It looks kind of disturbing and very thought-provoking, and when you’re in the mood for boobs, thinking too hard can be hazardous to your health. There’s simply not enough blood available for both heads at once, you see. But we do very, very much want to see Dreama topless, so now that we’ve got stills of her nude debut here at Mr. Skin, it’s like a Dreama come true (sorry, couldn’t help it). See a collage of Dreama Walker nude in Compliance (2012) after the jump!
I’ve posted a lot of pictures of Polish hottie Joanna Krupa over the years, I’ve been one of her biggest supporters, but what the hell am I supposed to do with this crap? Here are some shot of her looking pissed off at the airport the other day. Normally I’d find pictures of a pissed off hottie kind of sexy, I’m weird that way, but these just make me sad. She looks like she’s exhorting far too much energy chasing off the paparazzi and far too less energy showing off those awesome breasts. Get your priorities straight princess.
Were you in the mood for some pictures of one of the ugliest pornstars of all time with her clothes on? Well neither was I, but that seems to be exactly what’s happening right now. Here Mary Carey showing off those massive “talents” of hers as she walks around town the other day. I don’t really want to be mean, Mary has been good to me over the years, but where’s a giant paper bag when you need one?
In Friday afternoon’s round up of news, AMPAS picked a whole slew of new people to join their ranks of Oscar voters (many who were surprisingly not already members). Also there’s highlights of this weekend’s new specialty roll outs. Danny Boyle reaches out to PETA about the Olympics, Cee Lo Green boards Keira Knightley production and Lucky heads to the U.S. Academy Taps 176 to Join Ranks The folks behind the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have named 176 artists and executives to join their ranks. They will be among the eligible people who will vote come Oscar time. The membership to the organization has held steady at under 6,000 since 2003. Among the 176 are Jessica Chastain, Jean Dujardin ( The Artist ), Jonah Hill, Diego Luna ( Y Tu Mama Tambien ), Terrence Malick ( The Tree of Life ), Melissa McCarthy, Matthew McConaughey, Sam Rockwell, Andy Serkis, Octavia Spencer, Nia Vardalos ( My Big Fat Greek Wedding ), Lili Taylor, Kerry Washington, Wong Kar Wai ( In the Mood for Love ) and Michelle Yeoh. The Undershepherd Wins American Black Film Festival The 16th annual event opened with Beasts of the Southern Wild and closed with Raising Izzie . Among the festival’s winners: The Undershepherd , which won Best Narrative Feature and Best Director for Russ Parr. Best Screenplay went to The Last Fall , written and directed by Matthew Cherry, while Keisha Taylor’s Soul Food Junkies took Best Documentary. For more winners and festival highlights, visit their website . Around the ‘net… New This Weekend: Beasts of the Southern Wild , Take This Waltz , Last Ride , Unforgivable A long time in the making, Beasts Of The Southern Wild made a splash at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, taking the top prize and winning one of the top prizes in Cannes, and it’s hitting theaters this week. Australian feature The Last Ride traveled the festival circuit and it picked up a high-profile ally here. Take This Waltz is naturally getting attention courtesy of its star Michelle Williams and director Sarah Polley, while Venice-set Unforgivable is also hoping to ride the media wave to solid box office numbers this weekend, Deadline reports . Danny Boyle Assures PETA Over Olympics Opener 12 horses, three cows, nine geese, two goats and 70 sheep are among the participants at the opening ceremonies of the London Olympics. Danny Boyle has reached out to alleviate concerns about the welfare of animals who will feature in his $42.4M show by promising to remove them from the stadium early and ensure they do not face a grisly end afterwards “Genuine care will be taken of the animals,” he said. The Guardian reports . Cee Lo Green Boards Can a Song Save Your Life? He joins Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Stanfied and Catherine Keener in which he’ll play a very successful hip hop star. The film centers on a couple that moves to New York to pursue music. After Levine’s character dumps Knightley’s character, she encounters a down-on-his-luck record producer (Ruffalo) who assembles a ragtag music team to appear on a record with her, including Green’s character Troublegum, Reuters reports . Film Movements Gets Lucky North American rights to South African drama Lucky are going to distributor Film Movement. The story revolves around an orphaned 10 year-old boy named Lucky who makes a promise to make something of himself and heads to the big city., Variety reports .
Were you in the mood for some hillbilly hotness? I know I was. Well, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s Miley Cyrus showing off some skin in her always classy daisy dukes and braless t-shirt combination. Women wear this kind of thing to weddings in the south right? Personally I like this outfit, it’s got all the things I like, legs, belly and some nice perky breasts. What more could you ask for? I can’t wait to see her redneck wedding dress, I bet there’s a hole to show off her boobies. Hot.
Summer is around the corner and that means it’s the breast time to enjoy eating out al fresco and au natural. And the exhibitionist antics of stars like Anna Nicole Smith and Violante Placido will put you in the mood to pack a basket. So grab a blanket and bring out the sausage for the Top 10 Naked Picnics.
