E! Update: Tatum O’Neal, Kung Fu Panda, Dancing Dog

Posted on June 2, 2008

Actress Tatum O’Neal, who wrote about her struggle with drug addiction in the 2005 autobiography, A Paper Life, has been arrested after buying crack cocaine near her Manhattan home. Publisher’s Weekly said this about the memoir: ‘Much of the book’s second half covers her fraught marriage to volatile tennis champ John McEnroe; these passages alternate between recollections of the pleasure of being in love and having children and the pain of living with McEnroe, whom she depicts as controlling and demeaning… She also zips through her recovery, abruptly claiming “rebirth” in the final chapter.’ Used copies of A Paper Life are available at Amazon.com. Going cheap.

Early reviews for the upcoming animated film, Kung Fu Panda, have been good. The Hollywood Reporter writes: ‘Though aimed primarily at youngsters, KF Panda embraces humor that plays well across age groups and nationalities. Certainly the sustained applause at its Palais debut here in Cannes bodes well for international box office success.’ Groucho Reviews notes: ‘DreamWorks Animation’s latest has the right stuff to make audiences laugh but also care about the film’s characters.’

This is amazing.  If you’ve ever wanted to see a dog dancing on its hind legs - backwards - check out this clip from Britain’s Got Talent 2008.  Judge Simon Cowell is stunned, and the audience gives this pooch a standing ovation!

Fall Film Preview: The City of Ember

Posted on May 30, 2008

After the disappointment of last year’s The Golden Compass (and we really wanted to like that film) we’re hoping our expectations won’t be dashed with the October release of another fantasy novel adaptation, The City of Ember.

This HD trailer looks promising:

Here’s a plot summary from Amazon: ‘It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of  ”day” comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost… Among the many other things the people of Ember have forgotten is their past and a direction for their future. For 250 years they have lived pleasantly, because there has been plenty of everything in the vast storerooms. But now there are more and more empty shelves–and more and more times when the lights flicker and go out, leaving them in terrifying blackness for long minutes. What will happen when the generator finally fails?’

The film’s stars include Bill Murray, Tim Robbins and the irrepressible Toby Jones.  We’re keeping fingers crossed for this one!  IMBD has more.  (While watching the trailer, see if you can spot a cast member from a popular CBS crime drama. You have to look quickly. The answer is here.)

E! Update: Ashlee Pete Married, MJ In Vegas, Dolly Furious

Posted on May 18, 2008

- Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were married on Saturday.

- After Michael Jackson was bailed out of a foreclosure on his Neverland Ranch, rumors suggest he may be planning a Las Vegas show: “Jackson prevented a foreclosure sale on his sprawling Santa Barbara ranch earlier this month when New York-based private equity group Colony Capital agreed to take over his debt on the property.”

- Dolly Parton is furious at Howard Stern for making sexual a racist sound bites from one of her audio books: “I cannot believe what Howard Stern has done to me. In a blue million years, I would never have such vulgar things come out of my mouth. They have done editing or some sort of trickery to make this horrible, horrible thing. Please accept my apology for them and certainly know I had nothing to do with this.”

- Janet Jackson is going on tour with Madonna and Tina Turner.

- David Gritten has an early review of Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull: “It’s not that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, exhumed after 19 years to be the fourth in this series, is bad, exactly. But it’s undeniably creaky.”

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Posted on May 9, 2008

A new fully animated Star Wars film is coming this summer, “It’s said to be focused on Anakin Skywalker, fresh from his victory in Attack of the Clones and not yet following the path of the Dark Side. At his side is his determined female padawan Ahsoka, as well as the incomparable Obi-Wan. Together they become entangled in a plot in which the kidnapping of Jabba the Hutt’s son is used to set the Hutt clan against the Jedi Knights.”

George Lucas is taking a very different approach with this latest addition to his sci-fi empire. I don’t think his computer animation is quite on the level as films from Pixar.

New Indiana Jones Trailer

Posted on May 6, 2008

Check out the new trailer for Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull:

Iron Man’s $100 million weekend

Posted on May 4, 2008

Iron Man had a massive weekend debut. The film, starring Robert Downey Jr., grossed $100.7 million in it’s opening weekend.

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