“Be yourself and you can be anything.” – Katy Perry The upcoming documentary concert film Katy Perry: Part of Me now has an official poster, teasing insight into the singer’s private life as well as her singing career. The film will focus on Perry’s bombastic live performances, but there’s more to it, as well. Who is the lovely young woman behind the getups and catchy #1 hits? The documentary tells the story of Perry’s life, her rise to stardom, and her current status as one of the world’s most famous celebrities, beginning July 5. It will also touch on some of her “dark times,” such as her divorce from Russell Brand , which understandably crushed Katy despite an amicable parting of ways. For a more extensive preview of the forthcoming behind-the-scene look at the “Firework” herself, check out the Katy Perry: Part of Me in 3D trailer below: Katy Perry Part of Me 3D Movie Trailer
“Be yourself and you can be anything.” – Katy Perry The upcoming documentary concert film Katy Perry: Part of Me now has an official poster, teasing insight into the singer’s private life as well as her singing career. The film will focus on Perry’s bombastic live performances, but there’s more to it, as well. Who is the lovely young woman behind the getups and catchy #1 hits? The documentary tells the story of Perry’s life, her rise to stardom, and her current status as one of the world’s most famous celebrities, beginning July 5. It will also touch on some of her “dark times,” such as her divorce from Russell Brand , which understandably crushed Katy despite an amicable parting of ways. For a more extensive preview of the forthcoming behind-the-scene look at the “Firework” herself, check out the Katy Perry: Part of Me in 3D trailer below: Katy Perry Part of Me 3D Movie Trailer
(YouTube link) Screen Junkies brings us a painfully honest trailer for the movie Transformers, telling you all the revelations the real trailer ignored. Language slightly NSFW. -via The Daily What Geek Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 17/05/2012 18:32 Number of articles : 2
(YouTube link) Screen Junkies brings us a painfully honest trailer for the movie Transformers, telling you all the revelations the real trailer ignored. Language slightly NSFW. -via The Daily What Geek Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 17/05/2012 18:32 Number of articles : 2
(YouTube link) Screen Junkies brings us a painfully honest trailer for the movie Transformers, telling you all the revelations the real trailer ignored. Language slightly NSFW. -via The Daily What Geek Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 17/05/2012 18:32 Number of articles : 2
‘By the time ‘Avengers’ is done kicking box-office butt, it will easily be the #3 film of all time,’ one box-office expert tells MTV News. By Fallon Prinzivalli Mark Ruffalo as The Incredible Hulk in “The Avengers” Photo: Marvel “The Avengers” sure did assemble! Marvel’s superhero film is still the reigning champion of movie theaters after it smashed box-office records in its first two weeks. Now, it’s rising to the top of the worldwide charts, recently staking claim to the ninth spot, passing George Lucas’ “Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace.” It’s currently the highest earning film of 2012 domestically, stealing the title from “The Hunger Games,” which opened in March. At present, the Joss Whedon-directed summer flick has raked in more than $1 billion across the globe, and the numbers keep rising. The popularity of the movie is overwhelming, but a few questions still remain. For starters, how high will the film go? Gitesh Pandya , the editor of Box Office Guru , told MTV News, “I see Avengers climbing up to #4 on the all-time worldwide blockbusters list by the end of this weekend. That would put it at roughly $1.2 billion, which is astounding. It should pass the final ‘Harry Potter’ to finish its run as #3 all time, which alone is just incredible.” Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations agrees: “By the time ‘Avengers’ is done kicking box-office butt, it will easily be the #3 film of all time. Only ‘Avatar’ and ‘Titanic’ will be left untouched, as James Cameron is a superhero unto himself. Both [films] made history by debuting over the holiday season, where popcorn flicks are few and far between. [And] unfortunately for ‘Avengers,’ summer blockbusters invade every weekend, and theaters will soon be flooded with competition.” The competition Bock is referring to is obviously Christopher Nolan’s final Batman installment. “You know what happens when you leave Batman for dead? He gets angry, rises from the dead and pops you right in the kisser,” he said. ” ‘The Avengers’ versus ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has all the trappings of a big-time Hollywood drama. Let’s face it, ‘TDKR’ is probably the most anticipated threequel since ‘Return of the Jedi.’ All bets are off!” Boxoffice.com ‘s Phil Contrino agrees that Nolan’s film could beat out “The Avengers” in the battle for overall domestic earnings, but ultimately won’t top the opening weekend or worldwide sales for two reasons. It just doesn’t have the widespread family appeal that Captain America and Iron Man brought with them, or the 3-D prices to give it a boost. With “Battleship” sailing into theaters this weekend, Pandya expects “Avengers” to drop by around 40 percent. “[That will put it in] the neighborhood of $60 million,” he said. “That’s a great hold for a movie this big.” But as far as Earth’s mightiest heroes becoming the highest — or even second-highest — film of all time globally, Contrino doesn’t believe it will happen. “When you burn so bright for one weekend, the only place to go is down,” he said. Check out everything we’ve got on “Marvel’s The Avengers.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘The Avengers’ Related Photos ‘Avengers’ Assemble At Los Angeles Premiere ‘Avengers’
Some days you just need to see, as SCTV’s Farm Film Report guys Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok used to put it, stuff blowed up real good. If you’re having one of those days, Peter Berg’s Battleship is as good a choice as any. Beyond that, you should know a few things going in: Battleship is allegedly based on the Hasbro game of the same name, but never in the film is the line “You sunk my battleship!” uttered, so don’t expect a refund. Also, one of the invading aliens – spoiler, sorry! – looks a little like the guy from that ’90s Swedish band Stakka Bo . Now you’re ready for Battleship . Or maybe you’re not. Actually, the picture is perhaps not quite as painful as you might be expecting, though probably not as enjoyable, either. Plotwise, it’s as reasonably well-executed as these messes generally are. Actor-director Berg has made a few not wholly uninteresting films in the past ( Hancock , The Kingdom ), and while it’s easy enough to compare Battleship cavalierly with a Michael Bay movie, Berg does have a few more brain cells to work with, and here and there in Battleship they twinkle admirably. Also, the picture features a not entirely soulless specimen of beefcake, Taylor Kitsch, veteran of the TV show Friday Night Lights (which was created by Berg, adapted from the movie of the same name, which he directed). Kitsch wasn’t half-bad in the unjustly maligned John Carter , which only proves that we prefer to blast aliens to oblivion rather than land inexplicably on their planets and fall in love with their princesses. What that says about us as a people I prefer not to contemplate. Kitsch is quite winning in Battleship , a believable human presence in the midst of lots of metal stuff getting blasted to smithereens. His character is a young ne’er-do-well named Alex Hopper who, in one of the movie’s early scenes, scores a burrito for a good-looking (and hungry) blonde after the local watering hole has closed its kitchen. That blonde, played by Brooklyn Decker, also happens to be the daughter of stern bigwig Admiral Shane (played, with convincing stoniness, by Liam Neeson). And when Alex is forced by his more responsible brother Stone (Alexander Skarsgård) to join the Navy – Stone hopes it’ll straighten his goofball brother out – Alex of course runs afoul of Admiral Shane. All of this is before alien forces from an Earth-a-like planet called Planet G send their well-armed minions to wreak death and destruction, focusing chiefly on Hawaii, where they hope to take over a state-of-the-art interplanetary communications outpost. Dizzy yet? Just wait until the big graphite Planet G thingie lands in the ocean just off Hawaii, where Alex’s ship is engaged in some fun-for-all, low-risk naval maneuvers. Alex actually boards the thingie as Petty Officer Cora “Weps” Raikes (Rihanna) looks on, training a big gun on it just in case. It’s not giving too much away to tell you that massive kabooms ensue – among the weapons in the alien arsenal are flaming rondelles that saw through metal as if it were chunks of butter – to the point where the explosions become an abstraction: There are so many of them they begin to mean nothing. Have I mentioned the subplot in which a veteran with two prosthetic legs — played by Gregory D. Gadson, a real-life soldier and double amputee — reclaims his lost pride? Gadson brings a great deal of conviction to the role, and Berg uses his metal limbs as a great punchline to an alien-related joke. Other supporting players don’t fare as well: Rihanna has the face of a tough little streetcat, appealing and self-reliant, but the movie gives her very little to do (other than hold that big gun). The finest section of Battleship may be the last 20 minutes, the point at which the movie’s title begins to make some semblance of sense. It’s at that point that a real-life World War II-era ship, the U.S.S. Missouri , stationed at Pearl Harbor, is pressed into action against the alien forces. The hotshot young soldiers do not, of course, know how to work the thing — it’s all analog, and they’re digital as heck. Luckily, there are a bunch of geezer vets on hand, and they’re thrilled to have a chance to spring to action. The last section of Battleship is sort of like Antiques Roadshow meets Armageddon , albeit with way too much of the latter and not nearly enough of the former. But at least it brings a low-tech, human touch to a picture whose special effects, skillful as they are, are so excessive that after a while they just stop registering. Early in the film, a character makes a distinction between a battleship and a destroyer. A destroyer is designed to “dish it out like the Terminator.” Battleships, on the other hand, are “dinosaurs.” It’s funny that Battleship is ostensibly based on such a supremely simple, elegant and satisfying board game. As movies go, it’s really more of a destroyer. It’s entertainment as punishment, or perhaps the other way around. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Nina Dobrev hasn’t read Fifty Shades of Grey yet, but with her name floating around as a possible fit for the female lead, she might want to get on it! “All I’ve heard is that it’s very scandalous, to say the least,” the Vampire Diaries starlet told MTV. “I haven’t read it, but I’m intrigued … who knows?” “I mean, well, I guess we’ll have to see.” With co-star and real-life boyfriend Ian Somerhalder expressing interest in the role of Christian Grey, it’s no surprise Dobrev has been linked to Anastasia Steele. Working with Ian a second time isn’t as appealing to Nina as you night think, though. She said if she did play Anastasia, she’d prefer another guy . “I don’t know if that’s a good idea,” she said of herself and Somerhalder both starring in the movie adaptation of EL James’ erotic love story trilogy. “I think it’s best for any of the actors on The Vampire Diaries to kind of do their own things … and create new characters … if it’s the same people, the fans will alway see me as Elena and they’ll see him as Damon if we do a film together.” “I think it would be better [if] either he should get it or I should get it, but I know that apparently he’s really great for the role, so I hope he gets it!” Another pair of famous vampires, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson , have been talked about at length as good fits, especially considering that James initially modeled the books after Edward and Bella from the Twilight saga. What do you think? Tell us who should play Christian and Anastasia in 50 Shades of Grey by voting in our dueling surveys below! Who should play Anastasia : Who should play Christian :
Also in this morning’s edition of Biz Break: Sony Classics reunites with an Oscar-winner, Music Box takes a risk with a Hemingway, John Woo gets in on a remake, and more… Samuel Goldwyn Takes Gyllenhaal’s Grassroots The distributor has announced from Cannes its acquisition of Stephen Gyllenhaal’s activist dramedy featuring Joel David Moore as an idealist running for office — against Cedric the Entertainer — in Seattle in 2001. Jason Biggs, Lauren Ambrose, Cobie Smulders and Tom Arnold co-star. Susanne Bier’s Latest Lands at Sony Classics A year after releasing Bier’s Oscar-winning foreign-language feature In a Better World , the venerable art-house distributor has struck a deal to release her follow-up Love is All You Need . Pierce Brosnan leads the romantic comedy, which is set in Sorrento, Italy, and tells the story of “a group of people all seeking love, about passion and happiness, about jealousy and loneliness. First and foremost, it’s a story about having the courage to change your life – even when you think it’s too late.” And around the ‘net… Aaron Sorkin Makes Steve Jobs Deal with Sony It’s official: Sorkin will adapt Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography for the screen. “There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin,” said Sony chief Amy Pascal in a statement. “In his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarizing.” Deadline reports . Morgan Freeman’s Political Comments Irk WB Shareholder The actor’s claims during the Dolphin Tale press tour that the Tea Party movement and Republican politics are “racist and wants to screw the country” drew fire from a shareholder on Tuesday’s Time Warner conference call. TW CEO Jeff Bewkes, meanwhile, declined to intervene in Freeman’s upcoming publicity duties for The Dark Knight Rises , THR reports . Music Box Nabs Starlet Director Sean Baker’s controversial, sexually explicit SXSW sensation Starlet has a buyer in Music Box Films, which announced its acquisition of the Dree Hemingway-starrer today at Cannes. Variety reports . John Woo to Grapple with Beast Also from Cannes comes word of Day of the Beast , John Woo’s planned remake of Seijun Suzuki’s 1963 Yakuza classic Youth of the Beast . “This remake is my salute to the great films and filmmakers produced by Nikkatsu’s 100 years in cinema history,” Woo said in a statement. “It is exciting for me as well as an honor.” Deadline reports .
