Leo Advises Zac on Temptations

Good advice, Leo and wishes Zac a good journey in his career!

clipped from ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com Leonardo DiCaprio's Zac drug warning Zac Efron was warned to stay away from drugs by Leonardo DiCaprio if he wants to have a successful movie career. clipped from en.wikipedia.org clipped from ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com Leonardo DiCaprio told Zac Efron to stay off drugs.

Monsters vs Aliens Wins Box Office Race

Animations movies are far few and between and good ones with 3D are even far fewer. I wonder how you can watch 3D when it comes to DVD/BluRay.
For more box office numbers read: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118001821.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

clipped from www.screendaily.com DreamWorks Animation's 3D family release Monsters Vs Aliens stormed to the top of the North American charts through Paramount in a $58.2m three-day debut that marked the biggest launch of the year to date and delivered a ringing endorsement for the nascent digital 3D movement. However, the number of 3D screens across America is still relatively low. The ongoing debate between studios and exhibitors over who will finance the digital conversion of cinemas – which at roughly $70,000 per screen isn't cheap – has stymied efforts to upgrade the North American circuit.

Coming soon: Movie about Blair & Clinton

clipped from www.independent.co.uk Special relationship: the movie The writer behind Frost/Nixon turns director to film Blair/Clinton But after 25 years of writing some of the most memorable movies, Morgan is to swap the relatively safe distance of the screenplay for the director's chair. He will launch his directorial career with The Special Relationship, an HBO film which focuses on the rapport between Mr Blair and Bill Clinton. The project may test his mettle after revelations that Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore had been cast as Bill and Hillary Clinton, while Michael Sheen, with whom Morgan has worked extensively in the past, will star as Mr Blair.

Gawker's article: Thats nice, Smoky Flavor--
Hold on, advertising before the movie?!

Related article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-spies/why-women-grieve-for-nata_b_178313.html

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Natasha Richardson's Organs Donated LOS ANGELES — People.com is reporting that Natasha Richardson's family has donated the actress's organs to save other patients' lives. Citing a "family friend" it did not name, the celebrity Web site said Richardson's family had requested her organs be donated after she was taken off life support last week. The report did not say whether any patient had received them.

Funny Alert: How to Narrate David Letterman's Way

Update:
David Letterman: Top 10 Reasons I Got Married (VIDEO)




Complete: David Letterman Ties the Knot Monologue blurb

Reese's giant step | Jim Slotek | Columnists | Entertainment | Toronto Sun

The occasion is Monsters vs. Aliens, the DreamWorks 3D CGI kids flick about a girl-next-door named Susan, who is struck on her wedding day by an energy-packed meteor that causes her to grow to 49-feet-11. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, torontosun.com, MonstersvsAliens, DreamWorks, 3D, CGI, kids

www.torontosun.com/entertainment/columnists/jim_s · Original page

About the movie: When a meteorite from outer space hits a young girl and turns her into a giant monster, she is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years.

Rumors Can Do Some Woes, Can't They?

clipped from gawker.com

Have Rudy and Judi Split? (Update: He Says No)

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Are there truth to rumors? Rumors can be damaging especially to a politician and to public personal. Nowadays, with social networks rampant and the speed of the technology, the only saving grace could be: comment boards and public views? I would think twice before saying or doing anything in public and online.

Also: John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston advise box: you better keep your Twitter to the minimum or Twitter with your spouse like Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore.  

Was Hillary The Movie censored

clipped from www.csmonitor.com

Was 'Hillary: The Movie' wrongly censored?

The case centers on a Federal Election Commission (FEC) decision last year to block pay-per-view broadcasts of a 90-minute
film called "Hillary: The Movie," which presents a negative assessment of Hillary Rodham Clinton's record as a senator and
first lady. The film was produced by Citizens United, a Washington-based conservative group.

Silenced? David Bossie, leader of the conservative group Citizens United and producer of "Hillary: The Movie" in his Washington
office.

Movies like this does not come to attention when you do not have the money or the influence to stop the screening. At times, it does not even matter the money or the publicity, the producer could not stop the movie(s) or documentary coming to the screen due to the power of Hollywood or politics of Hollywood itself. Is this about free speech or well, politics at work that has been happening for over half a century?

Update: Actress Richardson dies aged 45

More photos of Natasha Richardson's funeral- so sad. RIP.
Ms Richardson's last screen performance was in a film chronicling the death of climber George Mallory on Mount Everest in 1924, it was revealed yesterday.
Note:
She provided the voice of his wife Ruth in The Wildest Dream, which has been narrated by Mr Neeson.

Director Anthony Geffen described listening to Ms Richardson's performance since her death as 'harrowing'.

- Web annotations on Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave share tender embrace as Natasha Richardson is laid to rest | Mail Online

Update: The actress' family has requested fans donate to the amfAR foundation for AIDS research, which Richardson was a patron of, instead of sending flowers.

Richardson is scheduled to be buried Sunday during a private funeral service in Millbrook, N.Y., where she belonged to St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.

- Annotation on ABC News: After Wake, Some Wonder If Helicopter Could Have Saved Richardson

British actress Natasha Richardson has died from injuries sustained in a skiing accident, her husband Liam Neeson's publicist has said. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, news.bbc.co.uk, RIP, actress

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7949195.stm · Original page

Obituary: Natasha Richardson

Update: The New York City medical examiner's office says actress Natasha Richardson died of blunt impact to the head.

Medical examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove says the death was ruled an accident. The cause of death was "epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head."

Funeral arrangements are pending.
Comment- Sadness

NYC Sitcom Map [PIC]

In A Series Of Pop-Cultural Charts: Here’s a handy map for the rest of the world, pointing out the exact location of NYC sitcoms. Oddly enough, these were all probably filmed in California. The untapped Williamsburg Hipster sitcom setting is plain to see. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, buzzfeed.com, NY, sitcom

www.buzzfeed.com/digg/nyc-sitcom-map · Original page

'Knowing' tops weekend box office - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

Summit Entertainment's Nicolas Cage disaster actioner "Knowing" easily won the weekend's domestic box office race with $24.8 million.."Knowing" easily foiled "I Love You, Man" and "Duplicity," the other films opening in wide release. "I Love You, Man" was second with $18 million and "Duplicity" was third at $14.4 million.
For complete box office numbers: AP-- http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jb68x_tOGx8QHjI0Cr6C-Vy79OGgD973CBPG0 ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, variety.com, boxoffice, Knowing

www.variety.com/article/VR1118001500.html?categor · Original page

globeandmail.com: Reality TV star dies after cancer fight

LONDON - Jade Goody, a dental assistant turned reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera in Britain, died of cervical cancer Sunday at the age of 27. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, theglobeandmail.com, JadeGoody, reality, Britain

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090 · Original page

The Magic Flute: Opera into a Movie

The Magic Flute is an English adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's singspiel Die Zauberflöte directed by Kenneth Branagh.
The Magic Flute (German Die Zauberflöte, K. 620) is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue.
Listen to an interview with Kenneth Branagh on his adaptation of The Magic Flute, now premiere in Canada
Check your local movie theatres for this movie.
The official website is also worth a visit, even though its mostly graphical in nature.
This film was first viewed at: Venice 2006

"The Magic Flute".  Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 2008.  Mar 22, 2009.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute_(2006_film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute

U.S.A. Sitcom Map [PIC]

Dan Meth didn't keep us waiting long for his next installment, #4 in a series of pop-cultural charts. ^{link »}

Sigh, just US sitcoms & no dramas & Brits etc? Bummer!!! ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, buzzfeed.com, sitcoms, US, maps

www.buzzfeed.com/percivalbright/usa-sitcom-map-3v · Original page

DeGeneres to play Mother Nature in comedy

Ellen DeGeneres has signed on to play Mother Nature in an untitled comedy being produced by Walden Media. The project is being penned by "Sex and the City" writer-executive producer Jenny Bicks. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, hollywoodreporter.com, ellen, comedy

www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news · Original page

New episode of The Simpsons set in Ireland for St Patrick's Day - Telegraph

It will b e the first time in the show's 20-year history that an episode has been broadcast in a country outside of the US before being shown there ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, telegraph.co.uk, thesimpsons, cartoon

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5004162/Ne · Original page

Could box office bonanza dry up?

Overstuffed release schedule gets leaner ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, variety.com, box, office, future

www.variety.com/VR1118001231.html · Original page

'Mountain' tops weekend box office

Disney remake bumps 'Watchmen' from top ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, variety.com, Mountain, Watchmen, movies, boxoffice

www.variety.com/article/VR1118001238.html?categor · Original page

Watchmen Video: Behind the Scenes

Comic book artist Dave Gibbons explains how his days working on '2000 AD' and the nuclear threat of the '80s influenced 'Watchmen.' And talks about comic book conventions in the 'old days'.

Howard K. Stern Arrested for Furnishing Drugs to Anna Nicole Smith - Crime & Courts, : People.com

Howard K. Stern & 2 others are charged of Anna Nicole Smith's death, including Sandeep Kapoor, 40, and Khristine Eroshevich, 61. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, people.com, annanicolesmith, howardkstern

www.people.com/people/article/0,,20265463,00.html · Original page

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts & Culture | Fonda returns to Broadway stage

Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda has returned to the Broadway stage after a 46-year absence. ^{link »}

About 33 Variations:
http://www.33variations.com/about_the_show.html ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, news.bbc.co.uk, 33Variations, broadway, NY, Jane, Fonda, play

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_cultur · Original page

AFP: Epic 'Watchmen' triumphant at weekend box office

Explosive comic book adaptation "Watchmen" has stormed to the top of the North American box office, taking 55.7 million dollars over the weekend, according to preliminary figures. ^{link »}

taken, millionaire, mall cop, he's just not into you are among the top box office hits. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, google.com, Watchmen, comicbook, boxoffice

www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jFPYf · Original page

Hold It Now And Watch the Hoodwink

One Week, a movie, are we relying on YouTube comments to get ppl to the theatres? thats what one torontoist quoted here, which was in his terms: he recommended people to head to the thetres and watch the movie!?! It sounds like picking reviews from reviewers in the newspapers, now only on YouTube with the trailer, hmmm? ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, torontoist.com, OneWeek

torontoist.com/2009/03/one_weak_ad.php?submit=dig · Original page

Avenue: An illustrated history of Watchmen from page to screen - The Ampersand

Steve Murray and Barry Hertz have quite elegantly summed up the history of Watchmen from Moore's pen to Snyder's lens. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, network.nationalpost.com, Watchmen, movies

network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/ar · Original page

Despite Downturn, Americans Flock to Movie Theaters - NYTimes.com

Hollywood could get used to this recession thing. ^{link »}

tags: mar 09, nytimes.com, movies, boxoffice, recession

www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/movies/01films.html?_r · Original page