It’s HOLLYWOOD.TV’s Celebrity GPS! And Ben Stiller likely had little, if any, clue he would star in an impromptu episode of ‘Guess That Movie’ at world-famous ArcLight Cinema on the Sunset Strip … LOL!! Also featuring a sore-jawed Janice Dickinson, an intent Robert Downey, Jr., a well-dressed Michael Lohan (who reports that Lindsay is doing quite well, thank you very much), a flirtatious Ciara, a sunny Phoebe Price, a bloated Jessica Alba, a zealous-fan-stalked Larry David, a sleepy Ron Artest, a party-bound Kirstie Alley, an in-character Al Pacino, and a vivacious Lara Spencer. Enjoy! Music: ‘Stalker’ by Joonie.
Horrible news, Skin fans- as is all too common in skinland, those rumors that Jennifer Aniston would break the boob barrier in the new movie Horrible Bosses turned out to be just that- rumors. In a new interview with the Chicago Sun-Times promoting the film, Jennifer plays it cool on the subject of boobs: “I have no idea where those rumors started, but it’s a good rumor,” she said. “How do these things start?” Uhm, how about your own studio? Press materials for Horrible Bosses said Jennifer filmed a topless scene for the movie, and the source of this rumor is almost certainly the studio themselves. But don’t be sore- Jennifer had a good time playing the sex-crazed Dr. Harris, and it shows on screen: “It’s usually the male character in that role. That’s why I thought of her like a guy,” she explained. “Other than that I just stuck to what was in the script. I didn’t have any input as to what she said. That was all on the page. And I was tickled and excited. The raunchier, the better.” Mr. Skin’s Skin Skouts saw Horrible Bosses before it opened in theaters, and while Jen does get raunchy, there’s no nudes in sight. Get the Horrible truth after the jump!
Michael Rapaport said he was done trying to make Q-Tip happy about his Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest documentary which hits theaters today. Tip publicly had beef with the project and Mike catered to him, but recently the film’s director told the press that the Tribe front man would “come around.” And it seems that has happened as Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad spoke to Angie Martinez on Hot 97FM and stated they got the creative control they were after. “If we hadn’t been supportive of the film, it wouldn’t be out. When I said that I wasn’t in support of it on Twitter, the director needed to respect the subject’s few requests that they had about the film artistically, an editing thing,” Q-Tip said. “Like I said before on MTV, it was more like a flare to get his attention, like, ‘Hello?’ because we were trying to get his attention. So we did it and then two days later, they were on a plane and came and worked on the edit.” Even though the movie was changed to the suit the subjects, Mr. Rapaport’s statements in The Daily News rubbed Tip the wrong way. Read the full story at Hip Hop Wired. RELATED: Phife Dawg Talks New Movie, Diabetes And Relationship With Q-Tip RELATED: OutKast’s Andre 3000 May Finally Play Jimi Hendrix In New Indie Biopic RELATED: “Viva Riva!”, “Beats, Rhymes And Life” Lead Pack Of Black Indie Summer Films RELATED: Michael Rapapport: “A Tribe Called Quest Didn’t Produce S**t For The Movie!”
Big Sean, who witnessed the album being made, tells MTV News that even its intro blew him away. By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway Jay-Z and Kanye West Photo: Getty Images Big Sean has been watching the throne, literally. The Detroit rapper, whose Finally Famous snagged the #3 spot on next week’s Billboard albums chart, got to watch Jay-Z and Kanye West craft their highly anticipated Watch the Throne album , but don’t expect him to give away the goods. Sean did confirm to MTV News that he didn’t land a spot on the album — not that he’s stressing it. “No, I didn’t make it,” Sean said on the set of his “Marvin & Chardonnay” video shoot earlier this week. “But it’s all good. I was there while they were doing it, applauding them up.” The album was made available for pre-order on Monday, and though no release date has been officially confirmed, the ship date on customer receipts is listed as “2011-08-02.” Kanye West took to Twitter to plug the LP and name drop Givenchy designer Ricardo Tisci, personality writing , “Watch The Throne cover by Riccardo Tisci. Pre-order album at www.watchthethrone.com .” Other than a few tweets from industry insiders like Hot 97 radio personality Angie Martinez , and positive reviews from artists like Swizz Beatz and CyHi the Prynce mum has been the world on Watch the Throne . So, when Sway pressed Sean, he too gave a glowing but brief review. “Man it’s just some good-ass songs on there,” he said. “I don’t know if they want me to give away any of the titles, but you’ll hear it. You’ll know what I’m talking about. Just even the intro is like, damn!” Related Artists Kanye West Jay-Z
Critics praise the ‘stout farewell’ of David Yates’ action-packed franchise finale. By Terri Schwartz Daniel Radcliffe and Ralph Fiennes in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures The final installment of the “Harry Potter” series is primed to make magic at the box office, but it’s already getting raves from critics as well. Early reviews of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” are positive across the board, earning the flick a whopping 100 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes . And although that number is likely to dip a bit once all of the reviews come flooding in next week when it hits theaters — we’ll be streaming live from the red-carpet premiere on Monday, July 11, at 4:30 p.m. ET on MTV.com — the overwhelming consensus is that “Deathly Hallows, Part 2” delivers on every level. Additionally, it seems that splitting the “Deathly Hallows” into two parts was a good call. While reviews for “Deathly Hallows, Part 1” tended to find that the movie felt too much like a prelude to the climax of the upcoming “Part 2,” the early reviews for the final film make it clear that the last installment doesn’t skimp on the action, emotional core or storytelling that has driven the franchise. The real question is whether “Part 2” is a satisfying conclusion to the “Potter” series, and the consensus seems to be that it definitely is. But don’t take our word for it: Read on and check out what the critics are saying. The Story “The film versions of J.K. Rowling’s stories have enthralled me, and I watched them with child-like wonder. The final film chapter had me literally sitting on the edge of my seat at times, particularly in the scene where Harry, Ron and Hermione (who for reasons too complicated to go into here has to look like Bellatrix Lestrange) break into a bank and escape over the London skyline on the back of a fire-breathing dragon.” — Baz Bamigboye, The Performances “The actors here have to make the most of their fleeting moments, and they consistently do. What the post-‘Potter’ careers of Radcliffe, Watson and Grint will be like is anyone’s guess, but at this point they know how to take these particular characters to the bridge without breaking a sweat. Alan Rickman gets to show us many sides of Snape, and he’s as compelling as always, even when the flashbacks use some freaky age-erasing special effects that leave his face looking odd. [Helena] Bonham Carter’s Bellatrix Lestrange is as goth-gorgon as ever, but she has some fun with some early scenes in which she gets to portray the Hermione-on-polyjuice-potion version of the character. And during the film’s big climactic battle, [Maggie] Smith and Julie Walters get some tasty moments that make their relatively small roles over the course of the series worthwhile.” — Alonso Duralde, The Wrap The Split “Fully justifying the decision, once thought purely mercenary, of splitting J.K. Rowling’s final book into two parts, this is an exciting and, to put it mildly, massively eventful finale that will grip and greatly please anyone who has been at all a fan of the series up to now. If ever there was a sure thing commercially, this stout farewell is it.” — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter The Action “Perhaps the greatest triumph of this final film is its ability to overcome the deficiencies of J.K. Rowling’s writing. In the last Harry Potter volume, she failed singularly to muster the epic feel needed; as a result, on the page, the concluding battle at Hogwarts was a damp squib. But [director David] Yates here transmutes it into a genuinely terrifying spectacle, as bloodied students fight desperately against a horde of screaming black-robed Death Eaters.” — Philip Womack, The Telegraph The End “And if you think you know how it all ends, you don’t. Yates has wisely tickled the face-off between the rivals to make it even better than the version Rowling wrote in her book. Unlike many other franchises, the quality of the Harry Potter films never dropped. The producers could have broken box-office records with a basic cardboard set thanks to the dedicated fanbase. Yet they have blown a fortune to make a special experience for them.” — Grant Rollings, The Sun We’re streaming live from the red carpet at the New York premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” on Monday, July 11, at 4:30 p.m. ET. Visit MTV.com to watch interviews with the stars and see the winner of the Harry Potter World Cup announced live. Tweet your questions for the cast @MTVNews using the hashtag #AskPotter. Check out everything we’ve got on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Videos Scenes From ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2’ Related Photos “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
Spoiler alert and all, but still: truth. “And now the Chicago genocide began. We saw no less than 17 fleeing citizens disintegrated by attacking Decepticons into blood fog. Then, in a big set-piece action scene, 14 more people were disintegrated. At that point, the freaking Autobots finally decided to show up, and they freaking pulled off a Decepticon’s limbs. Now, if this movie was rated R and actually awesome, they would have beaten the Decepticon to death with his own arms and legs. Stupid PG-13 rating.” [ EW ]
Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and John Malkovich offer up some choice DVD extras. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Photo: Paramount The DVD release of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” delivered a slew of extra features, including previously unseen footage of Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox teaming up with, and quite often running away from, shape-shifting alien robots. “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” actually clocks in at a slightly longer running time, so we can certainly expect the film’s DVD to contain a hefty helping of deleted scenes. “Because we’re 3-D, you’re shooting digital all the time,” LaBeouf told MTV News. “The beauty for us is, let’s say I’m doing a scene with [John] Malkovich or Frances [McDormand] or [Patrick] Dempsey or even Rosie [Huntington-Whiteley] — we’d just riff. You’ve got hours and hours of all that … where you’re just riffing and ad libbing and trying to come up with lines.” When you consider the film is about two hours and 40 minutes long, and the final hour is taken up with an epic battle scene in which Chicago is reduced to rubble, you can start to understand why some of that ad libbing was left on the cutting-room floor. Director Michael Bay was tweaking his cut only a month before the movie hit theaters. One short scene, for instance, featuring Malkovich’s oddball boss as he leaves a meeting with LaBeouf, Huntington-Whiteley and a few Autobots, was only cut recently. “It was just a little tiny thing where I go back to Rosie after I leave the apartment and try to get her number,” Malkovich explained. “That’s the kind of thing that could be true to the character and could not be true to the character — hard to say — but is utterly superfluous to the forward movement of the film. “You’re a figure in someone else’s dream, and however their dream plays out is the way it is,” he added. Wise words from a Hollywood veteran. But Huntington-Whiteley, who made her acting debut in “Dark of the Moon,” came to the same conclusion. “I trust Michael so much on his judgment,” she told us. “He’s made every single castmember look fantastic in this movie, and it’s a long film, so he really has to choose the best scenes and what makes sense to the story line.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Related Photos ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’ Crashes Into New York City ‘Transformers: Dark Of The Moon’
On a special edition of ”Cinema in Noir” co-hosts ReBecca Theodore-Vachon, Kimberly Renee and Rocky Seker discuss Spike Lee’s r ecent comments on the Oscars, Hollywood and his fight to produce the sequel to Inside Man. We also list our favorite Spike Lee movies and their impact on black cinema and the American consciousness. TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD : CLICK HERE RELATED POSTS: SPIKE LEE: WHY I HAVEN’T MADE A FILM IN THREE YEARS 5 MOVIE MUSICALS WE LOVE: SCHOOL DAZE TYLER PERRY: “SPIKE LEE CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL”
( via The Hollywood Reporter ) This past Thursday, Director Spike Lee sat down with journalist Charlie Rose for a Q&A session at PromaxBDA (an annual marketing, branding and design conference) in NYC. Spike was at the the conference to receive the organization’s lifetime achievement award for his work in film and television, in particular his series of Nike commericals featuring Michael Jordan. Lee shared his discontent with the Oscars and the Academy’s voting practices, Barack Obamas’s re-election prospects, and why he hasn’t been able to secure funding for a sequel to Inside Man , even with A-listers Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster attached to the project. Inside Man is Spike Lee’s most commercially successful movie to date, grossing $184 million worldwide. Read full story HERE: RELATED POSTS: 5 Movie Musicals We Love: School Daze Top 5 Spike Lee Beefs Tyler Perry: “Spike Lee Can Go Straight To Hell” Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” Chosen For Preservation In National Film Registry
