It’s true. Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes are expecting a baby. The actress is pregnant, multiple sources confirm, with the first child for both stars, who played parents in their 2012 drama The Place Beyond the Pines . Guess they’re about to assume said roles in real life now! Rumors of the duo’s undoing have been a frequent occurrence of late. Rumors that Eva Mendes is pregnant by Ryan Gosling came out of nowhere. The private, attractive stars, dating since 2011, haven’t been photographed together since November, leading to rampant speculation that they broke up . Not exactly. She was asked if she’s expecting by Ellen DeGeneres in February, but joked, “That all started because I didn’t want to go through the scanners at the airport.” A friend of Eva Mendes says she never planned on getting married or having kids, but being with Gosling has changed her perspective on all of that. “With Ryan things are different … she’s very independent but she’s content with her partner. She finally found the person she really wants to be with.” Even now that the pregnancy is confirmed , we don’t know when she’s due, although reports suggest she is already seven months along at this point. Congratulations! Celebrities Expecting Babies in 2014 1. Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson is pregnant! She’s expecting her first child with fiance Romain Dauriac
Gotta know when to hold ‘em, and when to fold ‘em… Criminal Shot After Betting Victim Was Unarmed An aspiring robber got shot up after betting his would-be victim that he didn’t have a gun to fight him off with. Some gambles just aren’t the best idea. Via KPTV : A man with a gunshot wound was reported, Friday morning, at an apartment complex called the Pines on Watkins Drive; but he wasn’t shot there. Jackson police say, shortly before that, a guest at a nearby Motel 6 had a run in with the man in the rear parking lot. They say the guest was approached by a man asking for cigarettes. The hotel guest said he didn’t have any cigarettes. The man began to walk away, when , police say, he turned around and said “I bet you don’t have one of these”, pointing a gun in his direction. The guest did have “one of these,” and began firing at the suspect. He reportedly hit the man at least once. The shooting victim left and was later picked up by ambulance at the Pines apartments. He was hospitalized, but is not being identified at this time. WELP! Bet he’ll think twice about who he runs up on in the future.
‘Place Beyond the Pines’ stunt coordinator explains to MTV News how the star transformed into a daredevil. By Kevin P. Sullivan Ryan Gosling in “The Place Beyond the Pines” Photo: Atsushi Nishijima/ Focus Features
If last week’s Olympus Has Fallen wasn’t enough White House Takeover for you, another very similar film just released its first trailer this week. Check out a full recap of the week’s movie news, trailers, and premieres, via our friends at Movie Fanatic. The Week’s Biggest Trailer: On Wednesday, the first trailer for White House Down , starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, came out. Yesterday, we saw a new Kick-Ass 2 red band trailer . Then today, the first 2 Guns trailer dropped, featuring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. The Week’s Biggest Casting News: An upcoming Young Adult adaptation added three relative-unknowns to the cast on Monday, as Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb and Christian Madsen join the Divergent cast . B.J. Novak was revealed to be in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 when director Marc Webb tweeted a still of the Office actor yesterday. And today, there’s some big news in the Marvel universe, as Robert Redford joined the cast of Captain America: The Winter Soldier . New Releases: G.I. Joe: Retaliation came out yesterday. According to this G.I. Joe: Retaliation review , it’s way better than the first film. The Host came out today. Read The Host review from our friends at Movie Fanatic. If you read our Temptation review , you know we didn’t much care for the film, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still go see it this weekend. The Place Beyond the Pines also came out Today. Check out The Place Beyond the Pines review . ffThe Week’s Biggest Trailers: The Week’s Biggest Trailers: The Week’s Biggest Trailers:
PG-13 action extravaganza G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) will be dominating theater screens this weekend, and the only female flesh to be seen is Adrianne Palicki jogging in tiny little black running shorts and a sports bra 50-minutes in. Even the R-rated drama The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), only features a pokie shot of Eva Mendes in a thin t-shirt, and strategically covered sideboob in bed. The good news is that the indie comedy Mental (2012) is also showing up on the big screen, along with full frontal from Lily Sullivan going down a water slide. Split splash! More after the jump!
PG-13 action extravaganza G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) will be dominating theater screens this weekend, and the only female flesh to be seen is Adrianne Palicki jogging in tiny little black running shorts and a sports bra 50-minutes in. Even the R-rated drama The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), only features a pokie shot of Eva Mendes in a thin t-shirt, and strategically covered sideboob in bed. The good news is that the indie comedy Mental (2012) is also showing up on the big screen, along with full frontal from Lily Sullivan going down a water slide. Split splash! More after the jump!
“If you ride like lightning, you’re going to crash like thunder,” sounds like something Dennis Hopper would have said in the 1970s (and, actually, the 80s, too), but the always-compelling Ben Mendelsohn gets the line in Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond The Pines . Although you only hear Mendelsohn deliver it in voiceover in this trailer for the feature, it’s a warning he delivers to his partner-in-crime motorcycle stuntman-turned-bank robber Ryan Gosling in the film. As you can piece together from the clip below (which comes via Yahoo! ), Gosling turns outlaw to support the surprise son he finds out he has (thanks to a fling with Eva Mendes’ character) and ends up on a collision course with a cop played by Bradley Cooper. (That tear Baby Goose sheds in the church is over his little boy, who’s played by a kid named Anthony Pizza, believe it or not.) But don’t be like the guy in Yahoo! comments section who thinks the trailer gives away the whole movie. The Place Beyond the Pines is way more complex than a heist flick. As the tag line in the trailer reads: “One moment defines your life. One decision becomes your legacy.” I’m curious to see whether Cianfrance has re-edited the film since I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival . I thought the way he structured the movie was daring and inspired, if a bit unwieldy in places, but there was some grumbling among the crowd that the movie’s three interlocking stories didn’t fit together so well. The movie opens theatrically March 20. RELATED: Ryan Gosling: ‘I’m Not Allowed to Have An Opinion’ About The Media’s Coverage Of My Life The Principals Behind The Pines : Gosling and Cianfrance On Robbing Banks, Fatherhood, Face Tattoos, And More [ Yahoo! ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
I keep coming back to The Place Beyond the Pines , but it was the movie that defined the Toronto International Film Festival for me. More than once, I heard the director Derek Cianfrance describe his ambitious and moving film as a movie about “legacy” and how “sometimes you’re born into a world with all of these repercussions that people have made before you” and “have to fight and claw to get out of that.” Judging from the features and documentaries I saw during my short stay in Toronto, these ideas of legacy and the sins of our fathers — whether they’re our literal or institutional fathers — are weighing heavily on America’s collective psyche. Perhaps this theme resonated with me because I am a father — the sins come with the territory — but after a decade of terrorism, war and economic turmoil, I think that, on a larger psychological scale, even a nice chunk of the 1 percent are freaked about how America’s recent past will affect its future, and that insecurity has seeped into a lot of the art that will be seeing over the next few months. The Place Beyond The Pines , which Focus Features will release in 2013, is essentially about how a fateful encounter between two fathers — one a stunt motorcyclist ( Ryan Gosling ) who has turned to crime to support his son; the other, a cop ( Bradley Cooper) , who has his own daddy issues, carries over into the next generation. I’m oversimplifying the plot, a good portion of which needs to stay under wraps for optimum dramatic impact, but, in the last third of the movie, Cianfrance creates a remarkable amount of tension around the question of whether the sons of Gosling and Cooper’s characters will be damned by the actions of their fathers. A similar theme is at play in Daniel Algrant’s Greetings From Tim Buckley , a movie that features a breakthrough performance from Penn Badgley as Tim’s son, Jeff Buckley, who, like his father, was an extremely talented singer/songwriter. (Based on Badgley’s performance, he has a bright future in film.) Buckley pere and fils both died young: Tim succumbed to a drug overdose at the age of 28 when his son was just an infant. Jeff drowned in the Wolf River in Memphis, TN when he was 30. Greetings doesn’t deal with their deaths, though. It grapples with the much thornier aspect of Jeff’s life, specifically, his struggle to shake off the weighty ghost of his father — at the post-screening Q&A I attended, Algrant said Greetings producer Fred Zollo described the story as ” Hamlet ” — who he barely knew but who serves as a constant reminder of all he has not accomplished. Tim Buckley had released nine studio albums, achieved critical acclaim and credibility as a political activist by the time he died. Jeff Buckley was just beginning to record his second album when he died. And yet, anyone who has heard his recordings of “Forget Her,” “Lover, You Should Have Come Over” or his ethereal version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” knows that Jeff found himself. But as Algrant and, especially Badgley, reveal, the story is all in the telling.
