Over the weekend Patrick Schwarzenegger, the son of Arnold, Tweeted a photo of himself experiencing a typical teen rite of passage: his senior prom. The 18-year-old attended with another celebrity offspring, legendary music producer (and American Idol mentor) Jimmy Iovine’s daughter Jade Iovine. Check out their cute Instagram prom photo below: In addition to being a student, Patrick is a model, aspiring actor and a designer for the charity-driven clothing line Project 360. Not bad for a teenager. In the pic, classmate Jade, in a white, strapless dress, pins a boutonni
It’s nearly summer, which means we’re inching ever closer to sunshine, grilling… and stadium tours from the country’s top artists. In the last week alone, Demi Lovato and Carrie Underwood have both announced the dates and locales where you can catch them perform over the coming months. Now, it’s Nicki Minaj’s turn. Nicki Minaj – Starships (American Idol Results Show) The eccentric artist will be hitting the road in just over a week, kicking off a multi-month tour that will take her from San Francisco to England, with stops in Germany and Denmark in between. Read on for Nicki’s complete schedule and make plans accordingly: 5-10 San Francisco, CA – Wild 94.9’s Wild Jam 5-12 Los Angeles, CA – KIIS FM’s Wango Tango 5-16 Sydney, Australia – Hordern Pavilion 5-18 Melbourne, Australia – Hisense Arena 5-22 Osaka, Japan – Namba Hatch 5-23 Tokyo, Japan – Zepp 5-25 Yokohoma, Japan – Yokohoma Bay Hall 6-01 Philadelphia, PA – Wired 96.5 Fest 6-02 Boston, MA – Jam’n 94.5 Summer Jam 6-03 New York, NY – Hot 97 Summer Jam 6-08 Stockholm, Sweden – Annexet 6-09 Oslo, Norway – Oslo Spektrum 6-11 Copenhagen, Denmark – Falkoner Theatre 6-13 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Beliguque 6-16 Berlin, Germany – Tempodrome 6-18 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Heineken Music Hall 6-21 Milan, Italy – Alcatraz 6-24 London, England – Hammersmith Apollo 6-25 London, England – Hammersmith Apollo 6-26 Birmingham, England – NIA Birmingham 6-28 Manchester, England – Manchester Apollo 7-04 Dublin, Ireland – Olympia 7-06 Paris, France – Zenith 7-07 London, England – Wireless Festival 7-08 Balado, Scotland – T in the Park 7-16 Chicago, IL – The Chicago Theatre 7-17 Detroit, MI – Fox Theatre Detroit 7-19 Cleveland, OH – State Theatre at Playhouse Square 7-20 Hartford, CT – Hot Jam 7-22 Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre Atlanta 7-24 Miami, FL – James L. Knight Center 7-26 Birmingham, AL – Boutwell Auditorium 7-28 Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center 7-29 Dallas, TX – Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie 7-31 St. Louis, MO – Peabody Opera House 8-02 Denver, CO – Wells Fargo Theatre 8-04 Las Vegas, NV – Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino 8-07 Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre 8-11 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre 8-12 Vancouver, Canada – Queen Elizabeth Theatre 8-18 Hylands Park and Weston Park, England – V Festival
The Avengers (titled Avengers Assemble in the UK) exploded at the UK box office with £15.78 million — or roughly $25.6 million — over the weekend, including its Thursday preview screenings, giving the superhero film the winning spot among British releases. And coming in the heels of John Carter (which has yet to even break the £5m mark in Britain), Disney is wasting no time celebrating, calling the result the biggest superhero-movie opening of all time, The Guardian reports . By comparison, The Dark Knight debuted in Great Britain with £11.19m ($18.1m, including previews), while Spider-Man 3 kicked off with £11.83m ($19.1m, sans previews) in May 2007 and Iron Man 2 grabbed just £7.66m ($12.3m, including previews) back in April 2010. Meanwhile, Battleship , which launched April 11 in the UK, has dropped from first to sixth place, taking in the rough equivalent of $811,000 from 436 locations — a 61-percent decline from the previous weekend. Rounding out the British theatrical top five, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen took in £1.08m ($1.75m) from 417 sites, The Hunger Games followed with just over £744K ($1.2m) from 398 locations, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists landed at number four with nearly £664K ($1.07m) at 511 theaters, and The Cabin in the Woods closed the top five with almost £562K ($911K) at 383 locations. [ The Guardian ]
The Los Angeles Film Festival unveiled its lineup of nearly 200 features, shorts and more today. This year’s event, which comprises work from 30 countries, will open with the North American premiere of Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love ( as previously announced ), while the world premiere of Warner Bros.’ Magic Mike by Steven Soderbergh will close out the festival, which runs June 14 – 24 at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. Other gala events include Lorene Scafaria’s Seeking a Friend for the End of the World , Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere and Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. And Dreamworks Pictures’ People Like Us will have its World Premiere in LAFF’s Summer Showcase screenings. Directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jody Lambert, and the film stars Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Michael Hall D’Addario, Philip Baker Hall, Mark Duplass, Michelle Pfeiffer, and centers on a 20-something fast talker who is tasked to fulfill his estranged father’s last wishes. LAFF’s lineup below include 30 World, North American and U.S. premieres, 19 of which are in competition. The festival’s International Showcase spotlight narrative and documentary selections from outside the U.S., while Summer Showcase are advance screenings set for release this summer. Narrative Competition (10) (with LAFF descriptions): All Is Well – Portugal (Director Pocas Pascoal, Producer Luis Correia, Cast Cheila Lima, Ciomara Morais) – Strangers in a strange land, two beautiful Angolan sisters fleeing a civil war in their homeland struggle to survive in Lisbon. Pocas Pascoal’s deeply personal saga shows us the face of exile with quietly stunning power. North American Premiere Breakfast with Curtis – (Director/Writer/Producer Laura Colella, Cast Theo Green, Jonah Parker, David Parker, Virginia Laffey, Aaron Jungels, Yvonne Parker, Adele Parker, Laura Colella, Gideon Parker) – A balmy eastern summer and a lush, rambling backyard are the perfect settings for this mirthful tale of unlikely friendships and rekindled neighborliness amongst a quirky and charming cast of bohemians. World Premiere The Compass is Carried by the Dead Man – Mexico (Director/Writer Arturo Pons , Producer Ozcar Ramírez González, Cast Gael Sanchez Valle, Pedro Gamez, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Eligio Melendez, Luis Bayardo, Marco Perez) – A young man and a dead man journey north through a subtly surreal desert landscape, picking up a wagonful of odd characters as they go in this darkly humorous satire of contemporary Mexico. North American Premiere Crazy and Thief – (Director/Writer Cory McAbee, Producers Cory McAbee, Scott Miller, Cast Willa McAbee, John McAbee, Gregory Cook, Graham Stanford) – With only a homemade “Star Map” and their own imagination to guide them, a brother and sister take a fantastical journey through the real world in this ode to being a little kid from cult director Cory McAbee. North American Premiere Dead Man’s Burden – (Director/Writer Jared Moshé, Producer Veronica Nickel, Cast Barlow Jacobs, Clare Bowen, David Call, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Richard Riehle) – This tense, classically crafted indie Western, set in the aftermath of the Civil War, starts with a startling act of violence: a daughter shoots down her father on the open range. Then her long lost brother returns. This is not going to be just any old family reunion. World Premiere Four – (Director/Writer Joshua Sanchez, Producer Christine Giorgio CAST Wendell Pierce, Emory Cohen, Aja Naomi King, EJ Bonilla) – Over the course of a steamy 4th of July night, a father and daughter, each trapped in loneliness, reach out for sexual connection — he with a self-hating teenage boy, she with a smooth-talking wannabe homeboy — in this psychologically complex, beautifully acted drama. World Premiere A Night Too Young – Czech Republic (Director Olmo Omerzu, Writers Bruno Hájek, Jakub Felcman, Olmo Omerzu, Producer Jiří Konečný CAST Martin Pechlát, Jirí Cerny, Natálie Rehorová, Vojtech Machuta, Jan Vasi) – On New Years Day, two innocent 12-year-old boys score vodka for three strangers and get invited to an adult party they’ll never forget. This darkly comic tale by gifted 26-year-old Czech director Olmo Omerzu upends the conventions of the coming of age movie. North American Premiere Pincus – (Director/Writer/Producer David Fenster, Cast David Nordstrom, Paul Fenster, Christi Idavoy, Dietmar Franosch) – An anchorless carpenter returns to his Miami home to help his ailing father. To escape the burden of his responsibilities, he seeks comfort in women, weed and his otherworldly German friend Dietmar. World Premiere Red Flag – (Director/Writer/Producer Alex Karpovsky, Cast Alex Karpovsky, Onur Tukel, Jennifer Prediger, Caroline White, Keith Poulson, Dustin Guy Defa) – Writer/director/star Alex Karpovksy reveals his sterling comic chops playing an indie filmmaker named Alex Karpovsky who, unexpectedly dumped by his girlfriend, takes to the road for a misbegotten mini-tour of film screenings and overly ardent groupies. World Premiere Thursday till Sunday – Chile (Director/Writer Dominga Sotomayor, Producers Gregorio González, Benjamin Domenech, Cast Santi Ahumada, Emiliano Freifeld, Francisco Pérez-Bannen, Paola Giannini) – With uncommon beauty and style, this Chilean road movie finds a family at a crossroads, as the daughter slowly realizes the divide between the adults in the front seat and the kids in back. North American Premiere Documentary Competition (with LAFF descriptions): 25 to Life – (Director Mike Brown, Producers Mike Brown, Yvonne Shirley) – William Brawner contracted the HIV virus through a blood transfusion as a toddler and kept it a secret as an adult while living a promiscuous, womanizing life. 25 years later, he comes clean, and this unflinching, sure-to-be-controversial documentary records his struggle for redemption. World Premiere A Band Called Death – (Directors Jeff Howlett, Mark Covino, Producers Matthew Perniciaro, Scott Mosier, Kevin Mann, Jerry Ferrara FEATURING David Hackney, Bobby Hackney, Sr., Dannis Hackney) – Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and inspiring family chronicle, this is the captivating and little known story of the Hackney brothers and their band Death, the best punk band the world almost never heard. World Premiere Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives – (Directors Sara Lamm, Mary Wigmore, Producers Kate Roughan, Zachary Mortensen, Sara Lamm, Mary Wigmore FEATURING Ina May Gaskin, Stephen Gaskin, Pamela Hunt, Farm Midwives past and present, Kristina Kennedy Davis) – Ina May Gaskin and the courageous midwives of the Farm commune inspired the modern midwifery movement. This beguiling documentary tells their empowering story with depth, intelligence and wit. World Premiere Call Me Kuchu – (Directors Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Producer Malika Zouhali-Worrall) – To be openly gay in Uganda is to risk imprisonment and death, yet brave men like David Katos, the country’s first openly gay activist, have fought back. This heartbreaking and stirring documentary takes us inside this life and death struggle for human rights. US Premiere Drought – Mexico (Director Everado González, Producer Martha Orozco) – Contrasting the lives of a cattle-ranching community with the arid northeastern Mexican landscape that surrounds them, this cinema vertité documentary paints a poetic portrait of a community on the verge of extinction. US Premiere The Iran Job – USA/Germany/Iran (Directors Till Schauder, Producers Sara Nodjoumi, Till Schauder FEATURING Kevin Sheppard, Leah Sheppard, Hilda, Laleh, Elaheh, Abdullah, Zoran “Z” Milicic, Kami Jamshidvand, Ali Doraghi, Mehdi Shirjang, Gholamreza Khajeh, Asadollah Kabir, Fereidoon Reisi, Mohammad Ahmadi, Ehsan) – An American pro basketball player signs up for a season with upstart Iranian Super League team A.S. Shiraz. This sports documentary takes a surprising turn when this gregarious charmer meets three strong Iranian women fighting the repressive regime. World Premiere Sun Kissed – (Directors Maya Stark, Adi Lavy, Porducers Jocelyn Glatzer, Maya Stark, Adi Lavy) – With remarkable strength of spirit, a husband and wife examine their lives and why their children and others have been struck with a rare genetic disorder in this powerful portrait of a small Navajo community. World Premiere Vampira and Me – Director/Producer R. H. Greene) – Before Elvira there was Vampira, the playfully ghoulish host of a local L.A. late night horror movie show who became a national celebrity, then disappeared. This loving, personal portrait reveals the remarkable woman behind the chalk-white mask. World Premiere Words of Witness – Egypt/USA (Director/Producer Mai Iskander, Featuring Heba Afify) – Updating your Facebook status is a political act in this street-level documentary depicting the recent Egyptian revolution as seen through the eyes and social network accounts of a young female journalist working for an English language newspaper. US Premiere International Showcase (15): Bestiaire , Denis Côté – Canada Bunohan: Return to Murder , Dain Said – Malaysia (Oscilloscope Pictures) Canícula , José Álvarez – Mexico The First Man , Gianni Amelio – France – US Premiere The Last Elvis , Armando Bo – Argentina Neighboring Sounds , Kleber Mendonça Filho – Brazil (The Cinema Guild) On the Edge , Leila Kilani – France/Morocco/Germany P-047 , Kongdej Jaturanrasamee – Thailand Return to Burma , Midi Z. – Taiwan/Myanmar Sister , Ursula Meier – Switzerland (Adopt Films) – North American Premiere The Strawberry Tree , Simone Rapisarda Casanova – Canada/Cuba/Italy Summer Games , Rolando Colla – Switzerland Teddy Bear , Mads Matthiesen – Denmark (Film Movement) Unforgivable , André Téchiné – France (Strand Releasing) Without Gorky , Cosima Spender – UK Summer Showcase (16) : About Face , Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (HBO Films) Beauty Is Embarrassing , Neil Berkeley Big Easy Express , Emmett Malloy Celeste and Jesse Forever , Lee Toland Krieger (Sony Pictures Classics) Gayby , Jonathan Lisecki (Wolfe Releasing) Gimme the Loot , Adam Leon (IFC Films) The House I Live In , Eugene Jarecki It’s a Disaster , Todd Berger – World Premiere La Camioneta : The Journey of One American School Bus, Mark Kendall – USA/Guatemala Neil Young Journeys , Jonathan Demme (Sony Pictures Classics) An Oversimplification of Her Beauty , Terence Nance – USA/France People Like Us, Alex Kurtzman (Dreamworks Pictures) – World Premiere The Queen of Versailles , Lauren Greenfield (Magnolia Pictures) Reportero, Bernardo Ruiz Robot and Frank , Jake Schreier (Samuel Goldwyn Films) Searching for Sugar Man , Malik Bendjelloul (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Avengers faces a tough battle if they want to top Katniss and company’s expected $400 million domestic earnings. By Fallon Prinzivalli Jennifer Lawrence in “The Hunger Games” Photo: Lionsgate After its sixth weekend in theaters, The Hunger Games” is still lighting up the box office . Katniss and company’s cumulative gross is currently a whopping $601 million worldwide, after raking in $11.2 million in the U.S. and another $7.4 million overseas this weekend. Standing tall at #4, the dystopian franchise’s weekend dip was 23 percent, which is the lowest decline yet for the movie (its second weekend in theaters saw a 60 percent drop), according to Box Office Guru . And it wasn’t far behind third-place “The Lucky One,” which earned $11.3 following its second weekend. It looks like the assembly of Earth’s mightiest heroes won’t even be able to stop Katniss’ estimated goal. With “The Hunger Games” sitting comfortably with a domestic total of $372.4 million, it’s going to take more than Thor and his mighty hammer to bring “Marvel’s The Avengers” to the top. If “The Hunger Games” can rake in $400 million domestically ( like box-office experts predicted ), it would outperform the first films in both “Twilight” and “Harry Potter.” As audiences gear up for the highly anticipated Marvel film, only time will tell what this weekend will bring the first film in Katniss’ franchise. And as far as the success of a sequel since Gary Ross is no longer on board to direct, it isn’t something Josh Hutcherson , who plays Peeta, is particularly worried about. “Gary, I think, brought so much to the movie, and he created that whole world that was so close to the book and so perfect in so many ways that it’s going to be hard for Francis [Lawrence] to come in, for sure,” Hutcherson told MTV News at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. “But Francis is extremely talented and everyone I’ve talked to says he’s the best guy in the world. So I think he’s going to bring a lot [to the sequel].” What film to you think will be the bigger box-office smash: “The Hunger Games” or “The Avengers”? Sound off in the comments! Check out everything we’ve got on “The Hunger Games.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: CinemaCon 2012
Almost seven months after suffering severe injuries in a fall , Sam Poueu exchanges vows yesterday with Stephanie Anderson. The former Biggest Loser contestants got married in San Francisco, the bride confirmed on her wedding website, adding that she wore a Vera Wang gown and “wept tears of excitement, relief, joy,” while feeling like the “most beautiful woman” the first time she donned the dress. In September of last year, Poeueu fell from a four-story building and underwent number surgeries, along with extensive rehabilitation. He now works as Biggest Loser Fitness Ridge Resort in Malibu, California. Poueu proposed to Anderson about a year prior to his accident, during a taping of an episode of The Biggest Loser . We wish the couple nothing but happiness.
I didn’t want to believe that this was a real video, but damn it is. Once upon a time, Steve Francis was one of the most explosive and prolific point guards in the NBA. A short time after his career has come to an end, Steve Francis is rapping (terribly) and making Murder Inc. tribute videos… Continue
The Cannes Directors Fortnight released its 2012 lineup Tuesday following yesterday’s Critics Week announcement and the Cannes official selection lineup last week. Michel Gondry’s The We and the I will open this edition of the sidebar, which was founded in May 1968 in the wake of the massive student uprisings in France. The Directors’ Fortnight styles itself to “independent-mindedness” and is non-competitive (though debut films are eligible for the Camera d’Or prize recognizing Cannes’ outstanding first-time filmmaker). Since its beginning it has showcased the first films of Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Ken Loach, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Haneke, Chantal Akerman, Spike Lee, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Francis Ford Coppola Sofia Coppola and more. Feature Films : 3 de by Pablo Stoll Ward (Uruguay, Germany, Argentina) – Première internationale Granny’s Funeral by Bruno Podalydès (France) – Première mondiale Alyah by Elie Wajeman (France) – Caméra d’or – Première mondiale Camille redouble by Noémie Lvovsky (France) – Première mondiale The King of Pigs by Yeun Sang-Ho (South Korea) – Caméra d’or – Première Internationale Dangerous Liaisons by Hur Jin-Ho (China) – Première mondiale Le Repenti by Merzak Allouache (Algeria) – Première mondiale Ernest et Célestine by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner (France, Belgium, Luxembourg) – Première mondiale Fogo by Yulene Olaizola (Mexico, Canada) – Première mondiale Gangs of Wasseypur by Anurag Kashyap (India) – Première mondiale Enfance clandestine by Benjamin Ávila (Argentina, Spain, Brazil) – Première mondiale La Nuit d’en face by Raoul Ruiz (France, Chile) – Première mondiale – Séance spéciale La Sirga by William Vega (Colombia, France, Mexico) – Caméra d’or – Première mondiale No by Pablo Larraín (Chile, USA) – Première mondiale Opération Libertad by Nicolas Wadimoff (Switzerland, France) – Première mondiale Hold Back by Rachid Djaïdani (France) – Caméra d’or – Première mondiale Room 237 by Rodney Ascher (USA) – Caméra d’or – Première internationale Sightseers by Ben Wheatley (United Kingdom) – Première mondiale – Séance spéciale Sueño y silencio by Jaime Rosales (Spain, France) – Première mondiale The We and the I by Michel Gondry (USA) – Première mondiale – (Opening film) A Respectable Family by Massoud Bakhshi (Iran)- Caméra d’or – Première mondiale Short Films : Programme 1 – 1H38 With Jeff by Marie-Eve Juste (Canada) Rodri by Franco Lolli (France) Königsberg by Philipp Mayrhofer (France) Enraged Pigs by Leonardo Sette et Isabel Penoni (Brazil) Les Vivants pleurent aussi by Basil da Cunha (Switzerland , Portugal) Programme 2 – 1H25 Drawn from Memory by Marcin Bortkiewicz (Poland) The Curse by Fyzal Boulifa (United Kingdom, Morrocco) Tram by Michaela Pavlátová (France, Czech Republic) The Living Dead by Anita Rocha da Silveira (Brazil) Wrong Cops by Quentin Dupieux (France)
It’s his prerogative . Via TMZ reports : Bobbi Kristina’s older brother Landon Brown doesn’t sound very supportive of her new relationship with Nick Gordon — in fact, he sounded like he’d like to have a nice man-to-man chat with Mr. Gordon. Our photog spotted Brown at JFK yesterday, where he said he wasn’t worried in the slightest about his dad’s recent arrest for DUI. But when we asked him about Bobbi and Nick, he sounded more like a concerned older brother, telling us, “You should worry about me and Nick … My little sister is still a child.” The next Brown family gathering should be fun. More On Bossip! Dirty Dog Diaries: MORE Women Come Forward Telling Royce That Her New Boo-Thang Dezmon Briscoe Been Tryna Chop Them Down Too! Single And Ready To Mingle: The 10 Best Cities To Meet New People And Get Freaky! Cheaper To Chop Her: Men (And Women) That Got Caught Trying To Pay For That Poon Ain’t That A B–?! Dirty Dogs That Faced Bad Karma For Their Dirty Dog Ways
Wiz Khalifa formally begins the campaign for his sophomore album, O.N.I.C. , which expected to drop on August 28th. The first single is titled “Work Hard Play Hard,” which the Taylor Gang rapper premiered on 4/20, of course, at San Francisco’s “The Bake Off” concert at the Bill Graham Civic Center… Continue
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