Robert Pattinson, Where Are You?
After watching the new Twilight trailer, we’re feeling pretty giddy and want more of that 22-year-old foxy vampire/reluctant musician Robert Pattinson. So we were disheartened to realize we had to go back to MTV's VMAs just to find a picture.
With his movie coming out in just over a month, he should be out brunching at Toast (the Ivy would be too desperate) and maybe popping up on a random red carpet every now and then. While he did perform a couple of songs at Whisky A Go-Go last week, all we got was a fuzzy YouTube video in which we couldn’t even see his hair, which is just unacceptable.
We're not asking Robert to go courting paparazzi attention, but just show up someplace where the cameramen might snap his picture.
And while we're on the subject of RobPat's supreme foxiness, let's talk about that Twilight poster...
Casting Couch: Rogen Gets Cancer...the Funny Kind
Seth Rogen's kidding around with cancer (and no, we're not kidding).
The Superbad star is going where no funnyman has gone before, signing on for a supporting role in I'm With Cancer, about one man's battle to beat the dread disease.
Hahahahaha...
Rate-a-Trailer: Twilight, Will You Bite?
Wooden stakes are fatal to a vampire, but wooden acting just makes them seem hotter. We kid! The film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's hugely popular vampire novels seems to have all the essentials for a hit: a hot young cast led by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, an angsty teen romance parents just won't understand, a pack of new millennial wild boys and, what the hell, car chases, too.
So fine, we'll bite, but what say you? Would you spend an eternity with these undeadheads, or are you more apt to watch Buffy reruns or that vampire movie where Nicolas Cage eats the cockroach? Comment away.
Bond Star Daniel Craig's Extreme Makeover
This is not the kind of makeover producers were thinking of when they cast Daniel Craig as 007.
The James Bond star has revealed he underwent cosmetic surgery after a mishap on the set of the latest spy caper, Quantum of Solace, in addition to having a shoulder operation for an unrelated injury.
Ne-Yo to Team Up With...Marilyn Manson? WTF?!
Can you picture it: Ne-Yo jammin' onstage with Marilyn Manson?
Well, it just may become a reality. The R&B crooner says he and the wackadoo rock star are totally serious about collaborating.
"It's going to be interesting," Ne-Yo said the other night at the L.A. premiere of The Secret Life of Bees. "I have no idea what we're going to do, what it's going to sound like. Just Ne-Yo and Marilyn Manson in the same room—we're going to figure something out."
Yoko: Imagine There's No Lawsuit
Yoko Ono's giving peace a chance.
John Lennon's widow and EMI Records have agreed to withdraw their copyright- and trademark-infringement complaint against the producers of the right-wing documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed for using a fragment of the late Beatle's seminal "Imagine" without permission.
The decision was announced by the Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project on its website.
"We think it was clear from the beginning that our clients had every right to use the 'Imagine' clip as they did, and we're happy we've vindicated that right," said Anthony Falzone, the professor who spearheaded the legal action.
Ono and the label filed suit in federal court in April seeking to block the distribution of the controversial Ben Stein-hosted Darwin-bashing film because producer Premise Media failed to license the "Imagine" clip. The song will be left out of the DVD release of the film.
Casting Couch: Fortunas Rise for Dominic Monaghan
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but no thriller is scarier than our current economic crisis. At least not according to the suits who run Hollywood.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez have signed on to star in Fortuna, a horror flick set in the not-too-distant future of 2100, when global economic and climate crises lead to the elimination of the middle class, leaving only the megarich and the severely poverty stricken.
Talk about fingers on the pulse.
Gerard Butler Flashes Madge Some Crack!
As the beefy star of Guy Ritchie’s London thug-life flick RocknRolla, Gerard Butler’s nothing if not a tough guy. So why does he drop his pants and giggle when Madonna comes around? When we talked recently, Butler explained why Guy’s wife got such a good view of his butt and why he thought it was so funny. Hit the clip to get the full story.
Casting Couch: Carell, Hathaway Remain Employed
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway have spied new jobs, Sarah Jessica Parker is on a hiring spree while hubby Matthew Broderick is back on the boards, and Kristen Bell has a new Boy in her life.
First up, the dynamic duo of Carell and Hathaway. Already on board for a Get Smart sequel, now they have each landed deals that will keep them fiirmly entrenched on Hollywood's A-list.
Deal Sheet: Heidi Heads Up Victoria's Secret Patrol
• Heidi Klum's latest runway project involves some seriously scantily clad catwalkers: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show features the likes of Klum, Alessandra Ambrosia, Selita Ebanks, Doutzen Kroes, Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller and Miranda Kerr "in this holiday infused lingerie runway show" taking place at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach and airing Dec. 3. Bells won't be the only thing jingling.
• Jimmy Kimmel is making his fourth go-round at the American Music Awards, airing live on ABC Nov. 23. The producer calls Kimmel "a masterful host...audiences can expect a great night." Quips Kimmel: "I agree...completely."
• Yet another degree of Kevin Bacon. His ubiquitous self will produce a new Showtime series, The Booths, centering on actor/assassin extraordinaire John Wilkes Booth and his thespian bros. No word yet whether Bacon will play a role.
This Fall's Best Flicks for Cash, Gossip and Gold
We're finally beyond the flak of summer movies, and just over the hump of September dreck—it's finally time in movie land for all the big guns to come out. We have the audacity—the nerve!—to peek into the future to pick which flicks are gonna be the most successful, but we're not just talkin' moneywise.
Here are our bets for which fall films are gonna rake in the dough, which are gonna sweep the Oscars and which are gonna be smothered in butter-flavored gossip (delish!):
Anne Hathaway's Pain, New Movie's Gain
Anne Hathaway didn't hide from personal troubles. Her new film didn't hide from audiences.
Hathaway's Rachel Getting Married stood out in a limited-release debut, grossing $275,000 at only nine theaters, Exhibitor Relations estimates said today. No weekend film made more money per screen—a whopping $30,556—than the indie-minded family drama.
Overall, Beverly Hills Chihuahua ($29 million) topped the box office, while Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist ($12 million) scored with young women.















