Mark Sanchez did not lead the New York Jets to a single offensive touchdown in the team’s first preseason game. But a new report makes it clearer than ever: the quarterback is having no trouble scoring with Eva Longoria! Rumors of Longoria and Sanchez as an item first started in June and are now heating up after the famous twosome allegedly spent two nights together over Labor Day weekend. According to The New York Post , Longoria was spotted at Sanchez’s home in Bedminster, New Jersey on Friday; she then took in a performance of “Rock of Ages” with the signal caller Saturday and followed that up by dining with Sanchez at Japanese hot spot Nobu in NYC. Based on her marriage to Tony Parker, of course, we all know Eva has a thing for professional athletes. The only question remaining: Did Sanchez split the gorgeous actress’ uprights… if you know what we mean?!?
Also in Tuesday morning’s round-up of news briefs, a 3-D newcomer tops the weekend’s Specialty Box Office among newbies. Roman Coppola ‘s second directorial effort with Charlie Sheen is headed to theaters. And, the Locarno Film Festival appoints a new Artistic Director following the sudden departure of its former head. Venice Golden Lion Watch at Festival Midpoint: The Master Dominates Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is emerging as the favorite half-way through the Venice Film Festival. Of the eight films that have officially screened, the post-war “relationship opus set agains the backdrop of a religion that resembles Scientology has received the best score in a festival poll of critics,” Deadline reports . Second Hobbit Movie Re-Named The third installment in the upcoming Hobbit movie trilogy, The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be released worldwide in July, 2014. That will be only seven months after the second film will be released. The second installment also has a new title, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug arriving December 13, 2013. It was originally titled There and Back Again . The first movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens December 14th of this year, Reuters reports . Specialty Box Office: Flying Swords 3-D Tops Newcomers; Samsara , Sleepwalk with Me Expand Strong New specialty movies mostly coasted through the holiday weekend, with newcomers ranging from fairly solid to weak in their Labor Day bows. Indomina Releasing’s IMAX 3D opener Flying Swords of Dragon Gate soared to the top of the pack with a decent $8,333 average for its opening in 15 locations, while Millennium’s Little Birds launched in one theater, grossing $8,314, Deadline reports . Roman Coppola’s Charles Swan III Heads to Theaters Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III starring Charlie Sheen will roll out in theaters in February. NYC-based A24 picked up rights to the film, while digital platform FilmBuff will handle domestic digital distribution. Set in L.A. the comedy follows a graphic designer (Sheen) whose breaks and needs find repair after his girlfriend leaves him, TOH reports . Locarno Names Italian Journalist as New Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian, an Italian journalist, author and festival programmer will take over as the Locarno Film Festival’s Artistic Director following the sudden departure of Olivier Pere on August 27th, THR reports .
Take it to another level no passengers on my…..helicopter Jay-Z Spotted Carrying Blue Ivy Darling little silver-spoon seed Blue Ivy Carter was spotted in NYC today having a little daddy-daughter time with her hip-hop heavyweight daddy Jay-Z. After photos of mommy banger Bey Bey and her little bundle surfaced last month , Blue has been under wraps and hasn’t been seen since….until today. Hubby Hov held his Bey-Bey mini-me close as they exited a helicopter in NYC, with Blue sporting some hater noise blockers to protect her lil ears from the loud sounds of the helicopter…..and Hov showin his die-hard fan side by rockin’ a Dallas Cowboys fitted cap. So precious!! Hit the flip for more of Blue and her proud papa!
Following the arrest of Alicia Guastaferro on prostitution charges Monday night, the former Wife Swap star’s husband has spoken out and… … wait, what?!? Yes, the 20-year old is married to someone named Scott Kleveno , who tells TMZ he tied the knot with Alicia last November at Niagra Falls, but separated from her a few months ago. And he isn’t shocked by her run in with the law. “With her not coming home on several occasions, the prostitution arrest is no surprise to me,” Kleveno says, explaining that Guastaferro worked as a dancer during their marriage and would often meet up with customers late at night outside the club. Kleveno moved to Florida after the couple split, but adds that Guastaferro has a history with James Doyle, the 54-year old lawyer police caught her with this week and for whom she claims she served as a call girl. Scott says a divorce is pending, but he’s waiting on the paperwork.
Chris Lighty, hip hop mogul and longtime manager of big names such as 50 Cent, Diddy, Ja Rule and Mariah Carey , was found dead in NYC this morning. Lighty apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot would to the head. According to law enforcement sources, the 44-year-old Lighty’s body was found by police around 11:30 a.m. in the back yard of his Bronx apartment. Chris Lighty was pronounced dead on the scene, where a semi-automatic firearm was recovered. The death is being investigated as a possible suicide. TMZ reports that he had been in an argument with his ex-wife and shot himself; the duo divorced last year and Lighty hadn’t been the same since. Our condolences to those who knew and loved Chris. [Photo: WENN.com]
Indian-born filmmaker Mira Nair said that 9/11 formed part of the inspiration for her latest film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist , which kicked off the Venice Film Festival Wednesday evening. Just days before the attacks, Nair won the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion, for her much praised Monsoon Wedding and she left the fabled Italian city for the Toronto International Film Festival to promote the film when the attacks happened. Like other New York residents, she was stranded in the Canadian city following the tragic event, taking her a week to get back to NYC and her husband and son. When she did make it back, she felt an “otherness” in the post-9/11 period, a theme she explores in her latest feature. “It was quite shocking when I got back because it felt like images I had seen in my part of the world, refugee camps, helicopters, a sense of war, a war zone, and it was in our backyard,” she said in Venice Wednesday as reported by A.P. “And so suddenly, (New York) became a place where people who looked like us were ‘the other.’ And that was painful, and that was also part of the inspiration to try to make this film.” Based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid, British-born musician and actor Riz Ahmed plays Changez a gifted financial analyst whose allegiance to America is questioned following the 9/11 attacks. Changez travels to the Pakistani city of Lahore re-connecting with his routes. Liev Schreiber plays a journalist who interviews him in Lahore as a kidnapping crisis rages. Kate Hudson plays his girlfriend and Kiefer Sutherland plays his former Wall Street mentor in NYC flashback scenes. “[The novel is] essentially a dialogue between East and West,” Nair said in Venice. “”We all know there has been an enormous schism, a wall between East and West, since, in this last decade. So I sought very much in the dialogue between America and the Islamic world in The Reluctant Fundamentalist to really bring some sense of bridge-making, some sense of healing, a sense of community that goes beyond the stereotypes, goes beyond the myopia, goes beyond the ignorance.” [ Source: A.P. ]
Like we told you, Lil Wayne likes paying producers about as much he likes NYC. Two beatsmiths—DJ Infamous and Drew Correa—are suing the New Orleans rapper’s Young Money Entertainment label for unpaid royalties, reports TMZ. Two different producers — Andrews “Drew” Correa and Marcos “Infamous” Rodriguez — filed federal lawsuits this week against Wayne’s label, Young Money Entertainment… Continue
Tom said: “Yeen gettin’ half of isht over here baby girl!” Tom Cruise’s Prenup Allows Katie Holmes Nothing Except Child Support According to TMZ reports : Katie Holmes walked away with nothing other than rather modest child support in her divorce from Tom Cruise … and we at TMZ have the breakdown. Sources familiar with documents filed with the court tell TMZ … Katie got no lump sum payout, which is consistent with the prenup which essentially shuts her out of Tom’s $250 million fortune. As for spousal support …. Katie got zip. Katie will get money for child support, but it’s way less than a judge could have ordered. According to the settlement, Tom must pay Katie $400,000 a year in child support. That comes to $33,333.33 a month. The money will be paid by electronic transfer. Tom must pay Suri’s support for the next 12 years — until she turns 18. All tolled, that comes to $4.8 million. Tom must also pay Suri’s expenses, including medical, dental, insurance, education, college and extracurricular costs. And … both Tom and Katie agree that Suri will NOT attend a “residential school” from now through her high school years. Translation — she can’t be shipped off to boarding school — Scientology or otherwise. Katie could have gotten more child support under New York law if the case went to trial, but both she and Tom decided to settle quickly. Hollyweird celebs ( Kimmy Cakes and Kris ) take note. Get yourself a virgin-tight prenup and if you decide to get a divorce, get it over with quick and dirty. Image via SpalshNews
‘You gotta bleed for the art,’ Joseph Gordon-Levitt tells MTV News at film’s NYC premiere. By Kevin P. Sullivan Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the premiere of “Premium Rush” Photo: Getty Images
