Let’s cut to the chase: Michelle Yeoh looks simply amazing in the first full trailer for Luc Besson’s The Lady , the story of Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi and the two decades she spent as a political prisoner in her own country. The film played Toronto last month but doesn’t yet have a U.S. release date, which is too bad because after glimpsing the uncharacteristically restrained (and gorgeously shot) work here by Besson, it’s one of the more intriguing upcoming releases on my radar.
Thomas Horn, who plays the 9-year-old protagonist in this winter’s Tom Hanks/Sandra Bullock feature Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (which is gaining Oscar steam), gives a somewhat stilted first impression in the movie’s trailer. He came off much stronger as a champion on Jeopardy! , where he towered over last year’s Kids Week with a $31,800 finish. I say we judge his potential based on his Trebekian skills, not his trailer prowess. Which categories did he soar in? And are they helpful when solving Tom Hanks’s key riddle?
It’s a great time to be Scotty McCreery. The American Idol champion releases his debut album (“Clear as Day”) in a week and has also just announced that he’ll tour with country superstar Brad Paisley in 2012! Scotty McCreery in Concert Cities, dates and other details will soon be released, but Scotty has Tweeted how “it’s really humbling that somebody like him would invite me to tour w/ him,” adding: “I just hope i’m ready for any pranks he throws my way.” Since he was crowned the season 10 winner in May, McCreery’s exclusive Wal-Mart CD has sold 185,000 copies, and his first single, “ I Love You This Big ,” reached number 15 on Billboard‘s Country Songs chart. Far from shabby for the young artist.
As one of the most frequent celebrity Twitter users, Ashton Kutcher has taken to that social media network to sort of shoot down rumors that he cheated on Demi Moore with Sara Leal and an expensive divorce is pending between the couple. This morning, the Two and a Half Men star simply linked to a music file for the Public Enemy song “Don’t Believe the Hype.” Make of that what you will. So, THGers: Do you believe the hype? The story goes like this: Kutcher partied with Leal, 23, at a San Diego nightclub on September 23rd. He then slept with her at that city’s Hardrock hotel later that evening. The next day was Ashton and Demi’s six-year wedding anniversary, which the pair spent alone, 3,000 miles apart, because Moore was promoting Five , her Lifetime original movie (above). The actress expressed her own mysterious thoughts on the cheating rumor last week, Tweeting: “When we are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself & study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” Perhaps if these two spent more time actually communicating, and less time speaking randomly to the public via 140 characters or fewer, they wouldn’t be in the predicament. [Photos: Diane Cohen/Fame Pictures]
Her sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley may have been celebrities since birth, but Elizabeth Olsen insists that their fame never affected the family dynamic. “I consider myself so very lucky to have such a normal family,” the youngest Olsen sis and Martha Marcy May Marlene actress tells October’s Nylon . The 22-year-old, who attended a private school in Beverly Hills for 13 years, says she was surrounded by “super-creative” kids. Rich, famous kids. “The weird thing is that everyone’s family was a part of this industry,” she says. “Everyone is always like, ‘What have you learned from your sisters?'” “But it didn’t really have to do with my sisters at all. Like, my best friend’s father [Rick Baker] is a makeup-artist, but he’s won seven Oscars!” “Another one of my friends, her family created Days of Our Lives .” She credits her father, David, for instilling the values of hard work in the girls. “It was always very important that his daughters take care of themselves, be financially independent. He never liked the idea of us needing a man.” She may never be AS financially secure as her sisters, whose GDP is that of a small continent. But have you seen Elizabeth Olsen in GQ ? HOT! Which of the Olsens would you most like to …
Mike Myers and his wife Kelly Tisdale have welcomed their first child, a boy named Spike. Now there’s a groovy name if ever there were one. The couple is “ecstatic” with their new addition , says his rep. The Austin Powers actor and his wife, who tied the knot last fall, confirmed their wedding in March and pregnancy in May. She co-owns a Big Apple cafe and began dating Myers for more than four years before they got engaged. Congratulations to the whole, expanding family!
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close arrives in theaters Christmas Day. Who better to anchor a film about a day no American will forget – September 11, 2001 – than two of America’s favorite stars, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. The movie focuses on an 11-year-old who lost his father in that day’s terrorist attacks, and tells the story of him embarking on a journey through New York City. His efforts to find the lock to a key his dad left behind, and the people and items he encounters along the way, tell a unique, but relatable and poignant story. Check out the official trailer below and see what you think: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Trailer
Just because you’re not receiving mysterious VHS tapes in Austin this week — where rumor has it Paramount may premiere Paranormal Activity 3 tonight as a secret screening at Fantastic Fest — does not mean that you won’t get to see the franchise prequel before its October 21 release. The studio has just launched a Twitter campaign which allows fans to vote on 20 cities to host special pre-release premieres. And if that still isn’t soon enough for you Paranormal fans out there, Paramount has just released a majorly spoiler-filled new trailer for the film from Catfish directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Click ahead at your own discretion.
From Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson: While there has been a lot of he said – she said about the Congressional Black Caucus Convention last week, it seems no one sought to report on the deeper purpose of the meeting. Accuracy in Media’s Benjamin Johnson covered black Americans’ feelings toward President Obama and the state of Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Big Government Discovery Date : 28/09/2011 17:30 Number of articles : 2
Here’s the trailer for Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, based on a script by Eric Roth. The movie has been a curiosity for me for months in part because the book is a piece of post-modernism that doesn’t lend itself easily to adaptation, and in part because Daldry chose a non-actor, Thomas Horn, to play the central role of 11-year old… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 29/09/2011 02:38 Number of articles : 2
