
When not breaking records as the first female footballer of her school, 13-year-old Paris Jackson is turning down offers to appear as a spokesperson for lingerie football leagues and — apparently — taking film roles. The middle Jackson child is slated to play the heroine in a fantasy film entitled Lundon’s Bridge And The Three Keys.
The film in based on a young adult series by author Dennis H. Christen. The plot details a particular type of magic that changes a dolphin into a human. Later, a darker spell transforms a young boy into a dragonfly and a “good jellyfish queen” becomes a sinister fairy godmother, according to Daily Mail. Profits from this film will reportedly go towards funding American public school system in some capacity. More »
Does this look like the 53-year-old hottie who played Aragorn to you? More »
He might have told Stephen Colbert he was quitting music to make coffee, but James Murphy has something a bit more glamorous lined up for himself now. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: James Murphy, actor! I guess he really can change. More »
Joe Manganiello is a Greek sculpture of the ideal man that has come to life, gotten a tan, taken acting classes, and gotten a part on True Blood. More »
Is that sort of gross, or am I just being a prude? More »
I’d hate to see her during the actual movie. More »
Were you planning on seeing Final Destination 5? You can tell me, I won’t judge. J/k, I will totally judge you, and so will Roger Ebert. More »
I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so…scared. More »
Always plotting, that Dwight Schrute. More »
It’s a well-known fact in Hollywood that nipples are magic. You can show the whole rest of your boob and everything’s fine, but as soon as a hint of the pointy center part shows, you are one of “those” actresses. You know, actresses like Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman…total C-listers! More »
You have to admit he walked right into that one. More »
One of the best things about doing this feature is that I’ve been able to catch up on pop culture references I was missing out on. And few movies are more beloved and quoted by my friends than The Goonies. Last week, when I watched Mary Poppins, I enjoyed the movie but figured that I would have liked it better had I watched it as a kid. With The Goonies I had the same fear: is it a movie you love because it’s just plain awesome, or is it a movie you love because it had major childhood nostalgia connected to it? Luckily, the answer is yes to both. More »
Morgan Spurlock‘s new documentary POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold is in theaters today, April 22 — perhaps you’ve already gotten the joke. A doc about making a movie that’s funded entirely by corporate sponsors (he uses Iron Man as his yardstick), all of the footage is of Spurlock approaching these corporations for funding. It’s a little bit Inception-y — “I’m watching Morgan Spurlock call up [x corporation] to give him money, and they’re talking about how in the movie the footage would be of him calling the company…” — and very meta. It’s also fascinating and very entertaining. More »
Rider Strong speaking on a social media panel today. – The Boy Meets World star, whose short film The Dungeon Master is in the Tribeca Film Festival, will talk about the usefulness of social media in promoting films. The panel streams online starting at 2:30 p.m. EST. (TFF 2011)
Poor Lindsay Lohan just can’t seem to catch a break. Though she’s out of rehab and isn’t going to do time for her alleged necklace-stealing, she hasn’t yet landed a film role. Although there have been a ton of casting rumors, nothing has panned out for our erstwhile LiLo. However, there is one interesting connection between all the roles she has been attached to. It seems that the only parts she’s getting offered are playing real people. More »
Here’s the thing about classic movies – they have a whole lot of dudes in them. The Godfather was basically a bunch of dudes killing each other with women sticking their heads in and getting martyred every now and then. Back to the Future made Jennifer a non-entity and then had Marty’s mom mack on him. Jaws was a bromance interspersed with shark-fighting. Despite being sort of tired of dude movies, the next movie on my Omigod What Do You Mean You’ve Never Seen THAT? Netflix queue was Raiders of the Lost Ark. Between Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, That Guy Who Played the Nazi Leader, and the rest, it seemed pretty dude-centric. A dudegasbord, if you will. But then something wonderful happened: Karen Allen. More »
There’s already a term for a buddy movie with guys – a bromance. But what do we call the equivalent movie for women? Discussing his new film Bridesmaids (which stars Maya Rudolph, Kristin Wiig, and Rose Byrne) in Entertainment Weekly, director Paul Feig suggests “sismance” and “galmance” as possible options. More »
Tired of M. Night Shyamalan‘s recent cinematic failures like Devil and Razzie Worst Picture winner The Last Airbender? Do you yearn for the days of such masterful suspense thrillers as Signs? If you’ve got a dollar to spare, you could help M. Night School in sending the director back to his alma mater, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. More »