Demi Lovato made it official today: the young artist is coming to a city near you! Possibly! Lovato called in to Ryan Seacrest’s radio show this morning and told the host/listeners: “I put on a show in New York and L.A. and had such a great time that I wanted to do a few more shows before the holidays.” Demi Lovato – It’s Not Too Late (Live) A short while late, Lovato revealed the following tour date/locales for a tour whose tickets go on sale October 14: 1/16 Detroit 11/18 Mashantucket, Conn. 11/19 Hershey, Penn. 11/22 Kansas City, Mo. 11/25 Houston 11/26 Grand Prairie, Texas 11/27 New Orleans 11/29 St. Louis 12/1 Atlanta 12/3 Chicago For a look at this singer live, visit our Demi Lovato video section now!
Welcome to THG’s Week in Review! Below, our staff takes a look back at the stories, stars and scandals that made these past seven days so memorable. If you don’t already, you can FOLLOW THG on Twitter and Facebook for 24/7/365 news. Day in and day out, let us be your entertainment news source! Now, a rundown of the week that was at The Hollywood Gossip : Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56. In a word, he was awesome. Amanda Knox was freed after her murder conviction was overturned . ESPN fired Hank Williams Jr. for likening President Obama to Hitler. Speaking of ESPN, their magazine features Hope Solo nude . Johnny Depp likened photo shoots to rape . Rape, people. Ashton Kutcher and Sara Leal totally, probably boned. Casey Anthony Jail Video: Reaction to Caylee Death This never-before-seen Casey Anthony jail video was released. This little girl became an online sensation. Disturbing, but fun. Sarah Palin is not running for President. Nor is Chris Christie. Herman Cain is running … his mouth. And for U.S. President. Speaking of running one’s mouth … watch this Diddy rant . Rachel Uchitel and Matt Hahn apparently tied the knot. There is apparently a Tupac sex tape out there. Nancy Grace Farts on Dancing With the Stars Man, Nancy Grace really needs to pull it together. See clip above. She’s still on the show, though. Kristin Cavallari cannot say that. Jacqueline Laurita apparently does not like Teresa Giudice. Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed finally got married! Is Jennifer Aniston pregnant ? It looks like … no way. Thomas Jane was actually a male prostitute . The X Factor Top 32 have been unveiled! Behind the Scenes with Kristen Stewart Kristin Stewart finally confirmed she is dating Robert Pattinson ! In more surprising news: Emily Maynard and Jeremy Shockey ? Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are reportedly a thing. Ditto Leonardo DiCaprio and Alyce Crawford . And Penn Badgley and Zoe Kravitz as well. Revee Carney and Ashley Greene too.
Dutch director Tom Six struck a genre nerve (sliced clean through with cold, sterile precision, really) with his 2010 body-horror endurance test The Human Centipede (First Sequence) , in which a mad surgeon stitched together three poor souls, end to end to end to end, in the name of twisted science. In the very least, it seems Six has thought good and hard about the film’s success and why some of the most disturbed sights and ideas this side of Salo — his favorite film, naturally — titillated horror fans so. But in going meta with The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) , in which a mentally challenged British fan of the first film plays copycat with a dozen more unfortunate “patients,” Six frequently falls parallel to his own villain, indulging in a depravity of his own design with a masturbatory glee that becomes taxing and torturous to anyone else.
1911 may be filled with lavish battle sequences and scenes involving masses of extras in picture perfect period garb, but the most breathtaking thing about Jackie Chan’s 100th film is how indifferent it is to international audiences. The Chinese blockbuster hasn’t needed or necessarily even sought out multinational success of late — if homegrown hits from the last few years like earthquake disaster drama Aftershock and romantic comedy If You Are The One and its sequel (all three of which happen to share the same director, Feng Xiaogang) don’t sound familiar, that’s because they’ve gotten nominal American releases or none at all. For U.S. markets, foreign still equals arthouse, and films that fall outside of that equation often confound studios and audiences who aren’t sure which niche subtitled mainstream fare should fall into.
Gay xenophobia in Serbia, burgeoning “Occupy Wall Street” protests gained labor unions joining the fight along with 700 arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The New Civil Rights Movement Discovery Date : 02/10/2011 02:40 Number of articles : 2
In olden times — as far back as 1993, even — I’d sometimes see screenwriters quoted in defense of their craft, asserting that the script is always the backbone of a good movie. I don’t see screenwriters saying that so much anymore, perhaps because they’re so used to seeing their efforts mucked with that they don’t even expect whatever good work they’ve done to shine through. Still, it’s painful to watch a movie like Dream House — well-acted, beautifully shot and directed with extraordinary care and attention to craft — only to realize that the story, the alleged backbone, is absurd.
Casting Michael Shannon as a potential psychotic is a bit like crowing over the discovery that water is wet. And sure enough, in Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter , Shannon gets his chance to go all bug-eyed and thin-lipped, to sweat through his clothes, to go ballistic on the neighbors, warning them that a big storm is coming and it’s going to wipe them out if they don’t get ready.
While it’s not quite enough to fuel a whole feature, the premise of Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a slice of meta-genre brilliance: What if the creepy, forbidding locals who always glare so unwelcomingly at slasher movie protagonists on their way to their haunted mansions and creepy cabins in the woods were actually just misunderstood? What if they were only trying to make conversation, and it’s the college students/horny teenagers/yuppie vacationers who rush to judge and act hostile and end up dying in the wilderness? In a particularly nice touch, the hillbilly heroes of this horror-comedy (which leans far heavier toward the latter half of that equation) are actually headed to a weekend getaway themselves. Tucker (Alan Tudyk) has saved up enough to buy a “fixer-upper,” a dilapidated cabin that evidence indicates might have once belonged to a psycho killer — but hey, it’s on a lake.
Welcome to THG’s Week in Review! Below, our staff takes a look back at the stories, stars and scandals that made these past seven days so memorable. If you don’t already, you can FOLLOW THG on Twitter and Facebook for 24/7/365 news. Day in and day out, let us be your entertainment news source! Now, a rundown of the week that was at The Hollywood Gossip : No, this isn’t 2004. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston really were back in the news, thanks to his controversial comments about their marriage. In better news for the actor, Moneyball looks totally awesome! Michaele Salahi and Neal Schon began a fairy tale love affair. Tareq Salahi and Ava Fabian were left to pick up the pieces. Four Real Housewives of New York City were cut loose. The 2011 Emmy Awards winners were unveiled. Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer – Cha Cha (DWTS Week 1) Chaz Bono debuted on Dancing With the Stars (above). Metta World Peace was eliminated after the first week. Jaycee Dugard is suing the United States government. These two 16 and Pregnant stars are bad parents . Seriously. Way worse than the Teen Mom finale . Is Taylor Armstrong’s black eye a hoax? The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Extended Trailer The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trailer dropped (above). More excitingly, this dude on X Factor dropped trou . Matthew Fox was cleared in his party bus dustup . Ashton Kutcher BOMBED on Two and a Half Men . Kirstie Alley’s weight loss pics are THE bomb! Ray J and Fabolous threw down. Bristol Palin Responds to Heckler With Gay Comment Bristol Palin really got into it with a heckler (above). Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez got … familial. Michelle Rounds is now dating Rosie O’Donnell. Some new Hunger Games spoilers emerged. Is Lindsay Lohan dating … Vikram Chatwal ? Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley split up.
What do you call an action movie manned by people who look as if they don’t want to be there? An inertia movie? Action movies aren’t just about action — they’re also about presence, about watching appealing or compelling personalities go about the business of kicking ass. Killer Elite features one proven action star, Jason Statham and two actors who have played fewer action roles, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen. But it’s all these actors can do to look present and accounted for. The picture, the debut feature of Irish director Gary McKendry, is rote and joyless, an exercise in disposability.
