‘Twilight’ actor will play a thief in the Australian outback. By Fallon Prinzivalli Robert Pattinson Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images Robert Pattinson is on a roll, Twilighters. It was just announced that the beloved actor has joined director David Michod’s “The Rover,” also starring Guy Pearce. While there is little known about the project, Deadline Hollywood reports the film takes place in the near future and follows a man (Pearce) who ruthlessly hunts a group of thieves through the rough Australian outback after they steal his car. Pattinson will play a thief named Reynolds. According to Variety, Michod will pen the script based on an original idea from “Animal Kingdom” star Joel Edgerton and himself. David Linde and Liz Watts are set to produce under Lava Bear Films and Porchlight Films. The news immediately follows the announcement that Pattinson signed on for “Mission: Blacklist,” the movie adaptation of Eric Maddox’s book “Mission: Blacklist #1: The Inside Story of the Search for Saddam Hussein — As Told by the Soldier Who Masterminded His Capture.” The actor will star as the man who led the hunt. Both “Rover” and “Mission” are still in development, but Pattinson has a busy year ahead of him. He travels to the Cannes Film Festival to promote David Cronenberg’s mind-tripping “Cosmopolis” and closes out “The Twilight Saga” as Edward Cullen one last time in “Breaking Dawn – Part 2.” Also available on VOD beginning Friday is the titillating drama “Bel Ami,” which opens in Los Angeles, New York and select cities June 8. For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com .
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
This is… interesting: Warner Bros. and Todd Phillips have brought in writer/directors Mark and Jay Duplass to have a crack at adapting Mule , Tony D’Souza’s novel about a couple who turn to drug trafficking to make it in the recession. Phillips would direct, making the project the first time the Duplasses, who recently drew mixed reviews with Jeff, Who Lives at Home , did not direct one of their scripts. Unless Phillips goes off and spends the next two years on The Hangover Part III , in which case I guess it might be the brothers’ first time directing an adaptation. Wait and see, etc. [ Deadline ]
‘ I Can’t Feel My Face has now turned into I Am Not a Human Being, ‘ Wayne confirms to ‘Hip Hop POV.’ By Rob Markman Lil Wayne Photo: Hutton Supancic/ Getty Images It seems like we’ve been talking about a Lil Wayne / Juelz Santana collabo album forever. But when the much-ballyhooed I Can’t Feel My Face will actually drop is anyone’s guess. While Weezy’s 2010 jail stint definitely postponed the project, now Tunechi says when he got home, he reached out to his Dipset buddy to finally put their plans in motion. “I actually got at Elz when I got out and told him, ‘Man, I think it’s time we really capitalize on that,’ ” Wayne recalled to Amanda Seales of MTV’s “Hip Hop POV” in an outtake from last week’s episode. It’s more than six years in the making, but for a time, I Can’t Feel My Face was one of rap’s most-anticipated projects. Now that Weezy has put his legal troubles behind him, it’s Santana who’s facing drama after his New Jersey recording studio was raided in January 2011. “He can’t work how he wants to work because they shut down his studio,” Wayne explained. “I sent him some music and he didn’t send them back in the time-fashion that I work.” Never one to remain idle, Tunechi took the songs that he had set aside for the joint album and repurposed them for his upcoming I Am Not a Human Being II solo LP. “I started putting extra verses on those songs and I’ve moved on,” he confirmed. “Now what probably would’ve been I Can’t Feel My Face, has now turned into I Am Not a Human Being. ” During a June 2011 interview on “RapFix Live,” Juelz gave his own reasoning for the delay. “It wasn’t no one reason it didn’t happen. Me and Wayne always was on the same page, musically, as far as friendship-wise,” he said. “I’m just happy we didn’t let that get in the way of us being cool, being able to do things in the future; we ain’t let it get to us.” Would you still like to see a Wayne/Juelz collaboration album? Tell us in the comments! Related Videos Hip Hop POV | Bonus Lil Wayne Interview Related Artists Lil Wayne Juelz Santana
Are the Central Park Five the next West Memphis Three? The teenagers wrongfully convicted in the vicious 1989 rape and beating of jogger Tricia Meili — and only released after the actual attacker came forward in 2002 — will be showcased in a forthcoming Ken Burns documentary entitled, appropriately enough, The Central Park Five . And while the film was funded in part by Burns’s longtime patrons at PBS, the two-time Oscar nominee and four-time Emmy winner (who co-directed the project with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon) is taking the film to Cannes next month with the hope of finding a theatrical distributor: “We want to do it [theatrically] because the running time makes it manageable, and there’s something urgent about it,” he told TV Guide this week. This sounds… familiar? At least a little familiar, anyway: Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky made the festival rounds last year with their HBO-produced documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory , another chronicle of miscarried justice made right-ish with the release — if not the exoneration — of wrongly convicted “West Memphis 3” murder suspects Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin. After arranging a qualifying run for Oscar consideration (and helping prompt Academy rule changes ), the film went on to lose this year’s Best Documentary Feature to the stirring football doc Undefeated . That theoretically cleared a path for the Peter Jackson-produced WM3 doc West of Memphis , recently acquired by Sony Pictures Classics , to cruise to the front of the preliminary 2013 Oscar pack. Meanwhile, Burns and Co. have cited some canny timing of their own: The Central Park Five’s wrongful conviction lawsuits brought against New York City, which plaintiffs Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Kharey Wise and Yusef Salaam are expected to finally bring to court in “the next year or two,” according to TV Guide’s Gregg Goldstein : One of the main financiers, PBS, has tentative plans to air the doc next year, but is open to a 2014 broadcast depending on its theatrical rollout. “We’d hope for some kind of harmonic convergence, where this story could be spread on the eve of the trial and potentially affect the outcome,” says McMahon, a producer/writer on Burns’ 2010 PBS doc Baseball: The Tenth Inning . “It would seem only fair, given that media coverage affected the outcome of the original trial.” The idea for the film came in 2006, two years after Sarah Burns began writing her May 2011 book, The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding . When production began three years ago, it was planned as a feature produced by the trio and directed solely by Ken Burns. “In the end, those ultimate decisions made in the editing room were all of ours, so it became clear we should all be directors of the film,” says Sarah Burns, who’s been involved with the case for nine years. She met two of the men during a college internship at a law firm and also wrote her undergraduate thesis on the case. The film marks the 29-year-old’s first effort on any documentary, McMahon’s first helming duties, and has several distinctions from a typical “Ken Burns film.” Goldstein explains those distinctions in his piece, but for our own radically speculative purposes, is there any more distinct difference than Oscar-readiness? Burns hasn’t earned a nomination since 1986, when he shared a nod for his Statue of Liberty centennial doc, and if a guy like Harvey Weinstein — the Oscar-doc incumbent who might as well kiss his awards chances for Bully goodbye — can get a hold of this, there’s no telling what the 2013 race might look like. Just throwing it out there… [ TV Guide ]
British actress Emily Blunt has traveled both the studio and indie route during her career, most recently appearing in Lasse Hallström’s specialty feature Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and starring this week opposite Jason Segel in Universal’s romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement . Meanwhile, another project Blunt is promoting in New York, writer-director Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister , joined Engagement as part of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, still underway in Manhattan. The smaller of her two Tribeca titles, Sister proved something of career déjà vu for Blunt, who told an Apple Store audience that her experience working on the feature reminded her of her very first film feature role. “The whole time I was shooting my first film My Summer of Love [2004], I was terrified because it was all improvised,” Blunt said at the event, co-hosted this past weekend by Indiewire . “I hadn’t worked that way in years, so I was [eager] to do it again. It’s daunting, but I was excited.” Your Sister’s Sister co-stars Blunt as Iris, who sends her good friend Jack (Mark Duplass) to her family’s island following the death of his brother. After he arrives at the island getaway, he has a surprising encounter with Iris’s sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), which unleashes a revealing stretch of antics over the course of several days. While the film is intended to be dramatic, comedic elements surface even in surprising ways for the actors. “I almost felt sorry for my character because when I was playing her, I was thinking very seriously,” said DeWitt, commenting on audience laughter during some scenes with her character. “But I think that when people laugh, they’re seeing themselves in the character,” Blunt added. Filming Your Sister’s Sister , Shelton worked with Blunt, DeWitt and Duplass as collaborators, in a working style she calls “collaborative and improvisational” — reminiscent of Shelton’s more recent feature Humpday (which also starred Duplass) and her debut feature We Go Way Back (2006). “I like to attach the actors first and then get the script together,” Shelton said. “The studio way is to have a script first, then you get the actors.” Shelton added that her methodology for making a film is akin to a playdate: “My way is to get friends together and say, ‘Let’s make a film this summer.’ It’s hard to do that with the studio system.” Shelton will next put her approach to the test with her upcoming — and comparatively larger-budgeted — Touchy Feely . The film will have a 20-day shoot boasting an ensemble cast (including DeWitt and Ellen Page) and many story lines, a departure from the more streamlined plot in Sister . “I’ve made five features in my cheap way, so I think I deserve this,” Shelton said. As for Blunt, the rising star will continue to promote The Five-Year Engagement , in which she stars opposite Segel as a bride-to-be chasing a fleeting wedding day, and has a number of other projects waiting in the wings. “I love the variety and choices out there,” said Blunt. “I want to do all things. As an actor, you want to have a bag of tricks that you never get to the bottom of.” Your Sister’s Sister opens June 15 in limited release from IFC Films. Read all of Movieline’s Tribeca 2012 coverage here . [Top photo: Getty Images; middle photo of (L-R) Blunt, DeWett, and Shelton: Movieline]
/EINPresswire.com/ Major global-security company, Northrop Grumman, focuses Earth Day 2012 efforts on the world’s water crisis, and enables local NGO, Water Wells for Africa (WWFA), to finalize its most challenging endeavor, the Malawi Mountain Project . WWFA received a grant from Northrop Grumman early this week to complete their on-going Malawi Mountain Project, which seeks to address disease and… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : EIN Presswire Discovery Date : 22/04/2012 19:57 Number of articles : 2
After today’s big Rich Ross news , I can’t pass up the chance to share a Rick Ross item. As in “Freeway” Rick Ross, the notorious ’80s drug lord with ties to Iran-Contra/social networking guru/film producer who has a Nick Cassavetes -penned biopic in the works (not to be confused with Rick Ro$$ the rapper). It’s early yet, but with Scarface producer Martin Bregman allegedly interested, the former drug kingpin gave Shadow & Act an update on the project. Ross and his business partner/attorney/former deputy D.A. Antonio Moore discussed the status of Ross’ biopic, written and set to be directed by Cassavetes: Ross : Let me tell you…I was out of jail one week and I was sitting in the office with Michael Lynton from Sony Pictures, Ari Emanuel from William Morris Endeavor’s office, Jeff Berg, Spencer Baumgarten of CAA and there was another guy who was the president of Universal Pictures at the time but I can’t remember his name…All these guys tried to tell me my movie wasn’t that valuable and I should cut ties with it, let them take it and do it the way they thought it should be done. Moore : I was at the Jeff Berg meeting myself and what he said was this story is very much “new content” and Hollywood right now is having major problems finding new content that resonates. He also said the script right now, which was written by Nick Cassavetes (screenwriter of Blow , director of Johnny Q and The Notebook ), has four nominations. We’ve made contacts with several black actors who we want in the picture, like Mike Epps, but most notably we’ve made a connection with Jamie Foxx. We’re in discussions to get him to play the lead possibly. He’s read the script and talked to Rick about it. One week out of prison and Hollywood was sniffing around. Of course. “It’s like the film Blow but with crack,” Moore explained. (Fun!) “It has narration and it tells the story from three different perspectives.” Ross’s Freeway Productions, meanwhile, has already produced its first feature — the horror pic The Lost Coast Tapes . More over at Shadow & Act . Photo via FreewayRick.com .
The first trailer for Magic Mike , a semi-autobiographical exploration of the younger, male stripper days of star Channing Tatum, has just been released. Based on Tatum’s stint in the profession before he made it big, Mike tells the story of an upstart male stripper taken under the wing of more experienced colleagues. With this kind of supporting cast – Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn and even director Steven Soderbergh – Magic Mike may be a must-see … Magic Mike Trailer
Seven finalists. 14 performances. On last night’s American Idol , the remaining contestants sang a pair of tracks each: first, they covered a “Now” single from the year 2000 and beyond . Then, they went with a soul-based “Then” song, tackling artists such as Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding. Relive the latter half of the evening below and then vote on your favorite… Hollie Cavanagh for hour number-two started with “Son Of A Preacher Man,” one of our favorite singles from that era. Hollie Cavanagh – “Son Of A Preacher Man” Up next, Colton Dixon went from Lady Gaga to Earth, Wine and Fire, sitting behind a piano for a version of “September.” Colton Dixon – “September” Elise Testone then got us into the mood via the Marvin Gaye classic “Let’s Get It On.” Will it help her move on? Elise Testone – “Let’s Get It On” Phillip Phillips proceeded to show off his versatility, following an Usher cover with a rendition of “Midnight Hour.” Phillip Phillips – “Midnight Hour” From there, Jessica Sanchez made a plea to “Try A Little Tenderness,” as she hopes to avoid another placement in the bottom three. The judges, of course, are all out of saves. Jessica Sanchez – “Try A Little Tenderness” Skylar Laine , who also did Lady Gaga proud with her first performance, then lamented how she “Heard It Through the Grapevine.” We adore her. Skylar Laine – “Heard It Through The Grapevine” Finally, Joshua Ledet took us home by telling the world that “A Change is Gonna Come.” Joshua Ledet – “A Change is Gonna Come” Which of these performances did you like best?
