In her much-anticipated sit-down with Oprah , Rihanna was asked some tough questions about Chris Brown, and answered them all with tearful honesty. Chris brutally assaulted his then-girlfriend in February 2009 after a huge argument, an altercation that injured her deeply in ways both physical and mental. Still, she said what she felt most was sympathy towards him. “It was a weird, confusing space to be in,” Rihanna recalled.
It has a director and a writer – and now it has a release date. With Joss Whedon confirmed to return for The Avengers 2 , Marvel has come out and announced that the sequel to one of the highest grossing films in history will hit theaters on May 1, 2015. Let the looooooong wait begin! There’s Iron Man 3 , for example. And Thor 2 . And Captain America 2 . There’s even Guardians of the Galaxy , which comes out on August 1, 2014. Remember to keep up with ALL your movie news over at Movie Fanatic!
“Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. You trust less. You calculate your steps. You survive. Hopefully in the process you don’t lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and—finally—the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don’t let them take that away from you.” [ Daily Beast ]
Friday’s release of the R&B musical remake Sparkle marks a bittersweet triumph for the late Whitney Houston , whose death in February preempted what many, including producing partner and friend Debra Martin Chase, insist would have been Houston’s comeback. Co-stars Jordin Sparks , Mike Epps, Tika Sumpter, and Carmen Ejogo remembered the iconic Grammy-winning singer, actress, and executive producer as a “vibrant” and “open” force on set who was gearing up to bounce back from her recent personal troubles. Jordin Sparks, who stars as the talented but self-conscious youngest daughter of Houston’s strict churchgoing Emma, first met her idol at Clive Davis’s annual Grammy party but was too shy to speak with her at length until they arrived on the Detroit set of Sparkle . “She was so down to earth, she just wanted to sit with us and talk with us and get to know us,” remembered Sparks. “She could’ve just been like, ‘I’m gonna do my scenes and go back to my trailer,’ and that wasn’t how she was. She’d be sitting, watching. Of course she was executive producing as well but she didn’t really have to be there. [She’d ask] us if we needed anything and if we were okay. And it was amazing to be able to go through that because, you know the supernova, diva, THE voice… and she’s just going, ‘So, what’s your favorite thing?'” In May, three months after Houston’s death, Sparks was asked to sing Houston’s iconic “I Will Always Love You” at the Billboard Awards. “She was always very encouraging, which I really took away from when I had to sing her song,” said Sparks. “It was the scariest thing I have ever done in my life. But I just heard her in the back of my head going, ‘You got this, you got this, you’re good,’ because that’s how she was on set.” Mike Epps met Houston and Bobby Brown on the set of a music video years ago before facing off on-screen against her as Satin, the slick comedian who dates her eldest daughter. “She was off the hook,” Epps enthused. “She was really really vibrant. She was just full of life and really alive. She was just happy to be there. Every chance I got I’d ask her about Dionne Warwick because it’s just amazing to me that she’s part of that family. My mother was a big fan of Dionne Warwick. [Houston] was telling me about Stevie Wonder and she had me die laughing. She’d say ‘Ya know, Stevie, he was drunk as a motherfucker.’ I’d ask her, ‘How does he get drunk? He can’t even see.’ And she’d say, ‘He’s having a better time than anybody!” “When she first saw me on the set, she said, ‘Let me get a picture with you!’ That threw me off. I was like, ‘You want a picture with me ?’ She said, ‘My daughter, Bobbi Christina, told me ‘You don’t know everybody, mama,’ and I said to her, ‘Shit, I know everybody in the business!'” Producing partner Debra Martin Chase shared a company (Brownhouse Production) with Houston and produced her previous screen outing, The Preacher’s Wife . She remembered Houston as a friend and artist full of ideas — the suggestion of a Sparkle remake was Houston’s, Chase revealed — who was on the cusp of mounting a career comeback. “[Houston] would call me periodically with interesting ideas and one day she called and said, ‘What about Sparkle ?’ She loved this movie so much. It was the happiest I have ever seen her on a movie. She loved the cast, she loved [director Salim Akil], she loved Detroit… she was just passionate about everything.” Even as she finished her work on Sparkle , Houston was enthusiastic to get started on their next collaboration. “It’s funny — when she was leaving, she was walking off set that last night and I was walking her out, she said, “I’ve got our next idea! We should do David and Bathsheba ! I’ve got an idea for it!” said Chase. “I just laughed and said, ‘Girl, go get on your airplane!'” “She was back. Before that she wasn’t in the space… but this brought her back. She’s fabulous in the movie, she felt good, and she knew she gave her best performance,” Chase shared with a smile. “I’m just happy it’s the last image that people will have of her.” Tika Sumpter plays the confident aspiring doctor Dolores, Houston’s middle daughter in the film. She recalled Houston’s maternal side on set, which transcended her performance. “Growing up, my sisters and I would look at her album covers,” marveled Sumpter, who says her tearful farewell scene in the film opposite Houston is her favorite memory from set. “In those moments she was just so vulnerable and so open as an actor. So giving, and there, and very present. She had such a great presence for me — I felt like I wanted to take in everything I could from her. She was just a nurturing body… vulnerable and open and loving. And that’s what I loved about her.” Playing the role of the sultry Sister, a talented singer who spirals out of control as the girls finds greater fame, Carmen Ejogo felt a powerful connection to her onscreen mother. “I feel like [Houston] came into the movie knowing there was something to prove on her part to some degree, and there was a humility on her part as a result,” reflected Ejogo. “That meant at times I forgot how massive she was. She was the first concert I went to see! That’s something that you realize after the fact, and you’re like, whoa — this is remarkable . I feel like we had a really lucky moment with her because as her sister-in-law said at her funeral, it was one of the best times of her life and it was so evident every day.” For Ejogo, filming her final scene with Houston brought Houston’s real life past and the troubles of her own onscreen character in uncanny parallel. “[There is] an artist called Marina Abramović — she’s somebody who literally sits across from you and is entirely naked — and I felt like I had that moment with Whitney in the last scene of the film, where she and I are mirroring each other.” “It felt like this art-meets-life kind of moment because Whitney in real life is very much embodied in Sister as a character, which is something she was very aware and open about,” Ejogo continued. “It felt like a very pure, naked moment between two actors, but also two people that were connecting on a really deep level. And that was the last scene she filmed in the whole movie. After that it was time to wrap for her and that was a really emotional moment because I really saw, in that moment, that she had had a really positive experience that was just coming to an end.” Stay tuned for more on Sparkle , which opens Friday, and watch below as the cast talk more Sparkle and Whitney Houston at the film’s New York premiere with Beyond the Trailer’s Grace Randolph. Watch it on YouTube. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Steven Spielberg likes IMAX’s Raiders of the Lost Ark conversion. He really likes it! I n an interview with Yahoo! , the uber-director said that he was “dubious” when IMAX approached him about giving his 1981 action-adventure classic the 70 mm mega-screen treatment, but ended up being way more than pleasantly surprised. “I didn’t know if the 1981 print would stand up to a full IMAX transfer, so I came expecting a sort of grainy, muddy, and overly enlarged representation of the movie I had made [31] years ago,” the filmmaker said. “And I was blown away by the fact that it looked better than the movie I had made [31] years ago.” From Sept. 7 to 13, Paramount will release the IMAX version of Raiders theatrically in conjunction with the Blu-ray DVD release of the epic. On Saturday, Sept. 15, AMC theaters will also present an Indiana Jones movie marathon that will show all four films beginning at 10:30 a.m. A collectible poster and lanyard are part of the $25 ticket price. Spielberg, who’se now working on the fifth installment of the Indy franchise, even said that the IMAX conversion improved upon some of the original film’s cinematic shortcomings. “All the shadows in the earlier scenes that we shot in Hawaii [were] always kind of muddy anyway on 35mm,” he explained, “because we couldn’t schlep all of our big arc lights down into this valley.” When he watched the IMAX conversion, Spielberg said, “the shadows weren’t murky and washed out; they were sharp as a tack.” “I sat there, I think, probably with my mouth open a little wider than it normally is,” he added. He was similarly impressed with how the IMAX transfer improved upon the sound quality of the 35 mm version. “When the giant boulder comes rolling down after Indiana Jones, Spielberg said, “You’ll see it full size, and you’ll feel it in your stomach.” Check out the IMAX trailer: [Yahoo!] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Man Accidentally Shoots Himself At Movie Theater These fools and their copycatting …smh… SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the buttocks at a Nevada movie theater during a showing of “The Bourne Legacy.” Police in Sparks, Nev., say the 56-year-old man’s injuries are not life-threatening and no others were hurt. Authorities say the man had a permit to carry a concealed firearm. The man told officers the gun fell from his pocket Tuesday night as he was adjusting himself in the seat and that it discharged when it dropped to the floor. Authorities say the case will be sent to the city attorney for possible charges. The incident comes less than a month after a shooting at a suburban Denver theater that left 12 dead and 58 injured. Makes you kind of wonder how many people were loading up the ratchet and taking them to the movies before the whole Aurora fiasco, huh? Source
Movieline is excited to welcome Alonso Duralde back to the pages of this site with a new regular feature we’re calling High and Low . Every week, the dauntless Duralde will wade through the mind-numbing number of home-entertainment choices out there and recommend two must-see releases: His first pick will be geared for cineastes looking for essential viewing. His second will be aimed at movie lovers seeking out the highest form of guilty pleasure available: the offbeat, the campy, the kitschy and the just plain wacky. Take it away, Alonso: HIGH: Les Vampires (Kino Classics; $34.95 DVD/$39.95 Blu-Ray) Who’s Responsible: Written and directed by Louis Feuillade; starring Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque. What It’s All About: Consisting of 10 serialized chapters, such as “The Severed Head” and “Satanus,” Feuillade’s silent 1915 crime drama follows journalist Philipe (played by Mathé) as he attempts to investigate the notorious syndicate known as The Vampires. (Sorry, Twilight fans, no blood-sucking here.) Over the course of this epic, which has been strung together as a single six-hour-and-40-minute (approximately) movie, we get murder, robbery, identity theft, poison rings, codebooks, gas attacks, paralysis drugs and orgies. What’s not to like? Why it’s Schmancy: Critics of the era despised Les Vampires — even in 1915, crime stories were considered old-fashioned and beneath Feuillade’s abilities — but the serial was embraced by André Breton and other founders of the Surrealist movement, particularly for the way that Feuillade combined a very realistic portrayal of Paris’ streets and sewers with his fantastic tale of masked bandits and their over-the-top skullduggery. More recent fans include Olivier Assayas, whose 1996 Irma Vep featured Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung (playing herself) coming to Paris to star in a remake. (Sexy assassin Irma Vep — played by Musidora in the original — is one of the key members of The Vampires, and her name is, of course, an anagram.) Why You Should Buy It (Again): This two-disc set comes beautifully mastered in HD, from the 1996 35mm restoration produced by the Cinémathèque Française and supervised by Feuillade’s grandson. The score for the silent film was compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. LOW: Godzilla vs. Megalon (Tokyo Shock; $16.99 DVD) Who’s Responsible: Written and directed by Jun Fukuda, story by Takeshi Kimura and Shinichi Sekizawa; starring Katsushiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi. What It’s All About: In this 13th outing for one of Japan’s most enduring franchises, the underground kingdom of Seatopia protests the damage that atomic testing has inflicted upon them by stealing the robot Jet-Jaguar and using it to guide their demon god Megalon to destroy mankind. (Megalon flattens Tokyo first, naturally.) Jet-Jaguar’s inventors use a remote control to regain power over their creation, and the cyborg joins forces with Godzilla to whomp the tar out of both Megalon and giant alien insect Gigan. Why It’s Fun: 1973’s Godzilla vs. Megalon sees the series moving in several entertaining directions; for one thing, the actual Godzilla suit has become more streamlined and less cumbersome, allowing the actor inside (Shinji Takagi, this time) to move around more and to engage in more physical combat. Also, the introduction of Jet-Jaguar came at a time when lots of Japanese kids’ shows, inspired by the success of Ultraman , started throwing in more robots, and giving Godzilla an automaton sidekick with which to defeat the bad guys gives the movie a real jolt. (This is one of those rare films that’s as much fun to watch unadulterated as it is on Mystery Science Theater 3000 .) Why You Need to Buy It (Again): Both the original Japanese version and the English dub, as well as a trailer and photo gallery. 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 .
Twi-hards — and the media — have certainly been paying more attention to David Cronenberg since the filmmaker cast Robert Pattinson in his latest, Cosmopolis , but they shouldn’t expect him to reciprocate. Movieline pal Grace Randolph caught The Fly director and his star on the red carpet at the New York premiere of Cosmopolis , where Cronenberg shrugged off the impact of Pattinson’s reported break-up with his Twilight star Kristen Stewart . “Honestly, that doesn’t touch me, and it doesn’t touch the movie,” said Cronenberg. “It’s really irrelevant. Not to [Rob] obviously, but to me and the movie. It doesn’t change the movie at all,” Cronenberg added. “That’s all media stuff.” The media was in full frenzy at the Peggy Siegal Company and Gucci-hosted premiere, which took place at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan, and Pattinson was their number-one target. Despite the crush, RPatz seemed to be enjoying the attention, and at one point was caught on Randolph’s camera saying: “The only thing I can be scared of is being bad.” Let’s see what the reviews say. Check out Grace’s interviews below. Watch It on YouTube. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
We think that the beautiful Katherine Heigl is one of the hottest actresses around right now and here in this video clip from the movie Side Effects she is being a big cock tease stripping playfully out of her clothes first to her bra and panties and then turning away. Continue reading →
Hollywood.TV is your source for celebrity gossip, news, and videos of your favorite stars! bit.ly – Click to Subscribe! Facebook.com – Become a Fan! Twitter.com – Follow Us! David Duchovny and co-star Graham Phillips sit down with Hollywood.TV to discuss their movie Goats. We first talked to them at Sundance when their film premiered at the Film Festival. During the interview a famous friend called David on his cell. Take a look to find out who. Hollywood.TV is the global leader in capturing celebrity breaking news as it happens. Launched in 2008, we capture all the latest news, exclusive celebrity interviews, star videos and hot celebrity gossip from around the world every minute of everyday. HTV is on the streets 24/7, at all the industry events and invited by the stars to cover their every move in Hollywood, New York and Miami. Hollywood.TV is currently the third most viewed reporter channel on www.youtube.com YouTube with almost 400 million views, and our footage is seen worldwide! Tune in daily for all the latest Hollywood news on www.hollywood.tv and http like us on Facebook!
Breaking Sports Video
