Note to Ryan Reynolds: Really? Are you sure?!? According to the latest issue of Us Weekly , the relationship between this actor and Charlize Theron is already over, scarcely two months after it began and without the pair ever making a public appearance together. “He only wanted something casual, but she’s in a rush to settle down, have kids and start a family since she’s getting older,” an insider said of the basis for the split. How did the Oscar-winner take it? Not too well, a friend claims: “She knows deep down that it wouldn’t have worked, but she is pretty bummed out about it all.” Having already been with Scarlett Johansson prior to Theron, it’s unclear where Reynolds can even go from here. Megan Fox ? Mila Kunis? The beauty bar has been set impossibly high. [Photos: WENN.com]
Jillian Reynolds, 44, and her Good Day L.A. co-host Jeff Michael were scheduled to have Von D, 29, on the program Wednesday to promote the new season of her TLC show L.A. Ink. Michael introduced her saying, “She just broke up with fiancé Jesse James, but not before getting a tattoo of his childhood picture.” It#39;s a Kat fight! Kat Von D and Jillian Reynolds are in a war of words on Twitter, following a morning show appearance gone wrong. Next thing the co-hosts knew, Von D disappeared. “K
Ryan Reynolds, director Martin Campbell and designer Neville Page explain creatures’ creation to MTV News. By Kara Warner Ryan Reynolds in “Green Lantern” Photo: Warner Bros. Nowadays, it seems moviegoers don’t see anything that isn’t at least partially CGI-enhanced — especially when talking about summer blockbusters and comic book movies. Not that we’re complaining. A movie like “Green Lantern,” which opened Friday (June 17), wouldn’t be possible without a heavy assist from computer-graphics specialists and visual-effects teams. When MTV News caught up with the film’s star, Ryan Reynolds, director Martin Campbell and creature designer Neville Page at the premiere this week, we asked them about the challenges involved in acting and working with so many non-existing environments. “I had pretty strong visual cues to work with,” Reynolds said. He explained that he was mostly working with actual people, actors who wore green-screen suits and were later replaced or enhanced with CGI in postproduction. Campbell said that although a lot of the time the actors were playing off “tennis balls on C-stands,” they all learned to work from nothing. “You’re sitting in a blue cave for god knows how long, and after a while, it’s fine,” he said. “You sort of adjust to it, you get used to it like anything else, it becomes the norm. Regarding the specifics of the film’s visual and CG-related feats, Page admitted that the alien characters, Tomar-Re and Kilowog (voiced by Geoffrey Rush and Michael Clarke Duncan), proved to be particularly difficult. “As soon as I saw the comic book design of it … I thought, ‘How are we gonna get a chicken guy to work realistically next to Ryan Reynolds and not have people laugh?’ ” Page said of designing Tomar-Re. “Kilowog was a similar character,” he added. “Obviously, we’re mindful — very mindful — of the fanbase and their expectation of what they are hoping to see,” he explained, mentioning details like body-part proportions and skin texture. “But at the same time, you have to take artistic license to bring these things to true, CG, cinematic life,” he said. Check out everything we’ve got on “Green Lantern.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos It’s ‘Green Lantern’ Week! MTV Rough Cut: ‘Green Lantern’ Related Photos ‘Green Lantern’ Trailer: Five Key Scenes
The folks at Bluewater Productions are commemorating Ryan Reynolds’s ascent into worldwide prominence, domination, and glistening emerald costuming with a $3.99, 32-page comic book called Fame: Ryan Reynolds . In addition to honoring Reynolds’ status as a “hero to the fanboy community with his ability tell a joke, get the girl, and battle supervillians on screen,” it also honors his cartoonishly insane body. Enjoy the cover.
Blake Lively appeared on Today this morning to promote Green Lantern and kind of addressed those pesky rumors flying around those sexy photos. The ALLEGED Blake Lively nude pictures surfaced about two weeks ago, promoting a response from her rep, who claimed that they are “100 percent fake.” One hacker begs to differ , but between that and photos of Blake hanging out with Leonardo DiCaprio, there’s a whole lot of Lively gossip these days! How does the actress handle all the scrutiny? “You know, getting into this business, [it’s] what comes into it,” Blake told Today . “You do it for the art, for the wonderful work that we get to do.” “Otherwise, you keep your head down, you keep to yourself.” Blake also discussed her new movie Green Lantern , which co-stars Ryan Reynolds, and how her character, Carol, gets to keep him in line. “Having someone like Ryan Reynolds, you’re hard-pressed to find someone who’s as witty and more charming than him,” she said. The movie opens this Friday.
Before the first movie hits theaters on Friday, Reynolds and Blake Lively hint at sequel plots. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Ryan Reynolds in “Green Lantern” Photo: Warner Bros. Ryan Reynolds was still busy in a blue-screen studio bringing the starry magic of “Green Lantern” to life when Warner Bros. started moving ahead with plans for a sequel. That’s just the way things work in Hollywood. Now, a year after screenwriters were hired to pen the script for “Green Lantern 2,” much of the overall story seems to be in place, and as Reynolds told us recently, he’s “pretty aware” of what’s in store for his Hal Jordan, the test-pilot-turned-universe-protecting superhero. But with the first flick not hitting theaters until this Friday, the actor isn’t going to spill all the details. “I’m not throwing that out there at all,” he said. He did, nonetheless, toss us a few clues — most tantalizingly about what’s in store for Jordan and Sinestro, an ally who eventually becomes one of Jordan’s greatest enemies. “There’s such a rich history with this character, so you get really excited about the possibility,” Reynolds explained. “The inevitable war between Hal and Sinestro is something that will have to be dealt with in the second movie for sure, but there’s always subplots and a lot of other interesting things going on that are setting up a possible third film.” One subplot that co-star Blake Lively is hoping to see in future films concerns her character, Carol Ferris. According to DC Comics lore, Ferris evolves from Jordan’s on-again, off-again lover into a powerful being endowed with abilities similar to those that Jordan’s Green Lantern Corps power ring gives him. She becomes known as Star Sapphire, another of Jordan’s enemies. Lively, it seems, can’t wait to battle Reynolds — either in a sequel or even the third film that Reynolds discussed. Not that she went into great detail about the plots either. “Like the war between Star Sapphire and …,” Lively began, before trailing off. Reynolds quickly picked up. “Oh, I was talking about Pok
“It was just a way to sabotage Ryan,” Blake Lively, 23, said jokingly at a Los Angeles press conference for The Green Lantern, which opens June 17. “He was working out as much as he was, and I’m the girl. I’m supposed to look better.” Superman has kryptonite. The Green Lantern has baked goods. To make sure Ryan Reynolds didn#39;t steal the spotlight, costar Blake Lively hit him with his ultimate weakness: cupcakes. The Gossip Girl actress, who brushed up on her cooking skills at Le Cordon Ble
Gucci tells us exclusively that creative director Frida Giannini designed Welch’s tour wardrobe, which consists of ethereal gowns accented with whimsical touches. “When Florence first came onto the scene, I was captivated by her eccentric style and her willingness to dare,” Giannini says in a release. The dog days of summer are just beginning — and that means Florence Welch’s tour is about to start, too! Beginning tomorrow, the songstress — the driving force behind Florence + the Machine — w
You might as well put Gangster Squad at the top of your must-see list for 2012. According to Deadline, Warner Bros. has begun negotiating with Josh Brolin and the previously announced tandem of Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling to star. Ruben Fleischer will direct the L.A. Confidential -like film about cops and, well, gangsters in 1940s Los Angeles. [ Deadline ]
Water for Elephants is one of those big, extravagant-looking romances that you might automatically deem “conventional” — except for the fact that almost nobody makes big, extravagant-looking romances anymore. That’s the elephant in the room that the movie’s director, Francis Lawrence, faces head on. Whatever his movie’s flaws may be, he’s alive to the wonder of spectacle, and he still believes in the old-fashioned idea of movie stars: Those with two legs, and especially those with four.
