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'Saturday Night Live' best host poll: And the winner is...
4 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
To be a truly great host on Saturday Night Live requires a multitude of skills that elude even some of our favorite stars. He or she needs to be fearless. A willingness to be, as Josh Brolin said this year in his SNL monologue, “career-endingly stupid.” On top of that, things have to go just right — even the most game guest is at the mercy of the show’s writers and ensemble and they’d be the first to admit that all their shows are not created equal. But as Seth Meyers has often said, the show often takes on the personality of the host. »
- Jeff Labrecque
Watch: Rita Wilson Shares The Moment She Knew Tom Was The Man for Her
21 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Huff/Post50 Editor-at-Large Rita Wilson recently told The Talk about how she felt the moment she knew her husband, actor Tom Hanks, was the one.
"It wasn't chills, it was warmth" that went through her body, Wilson explained. It seems a lot of attention has been paid to the stars' relationship of 20+ years -- Ellen Degeneres showed footage of Rita and Tom on the "kiss cam" at a hockey game when Wilson appeared on her show last month. (We here at HuffPost/50 love long-lasting couples -- see our slideshow of celebrity couples who have been married for more than 25 years.)
Check out the video above to hear exactly what Hanks said that rocked her world. »
- TV Replay
Will Smith admits his son wanted him to do a 'Bad Boys' sequel before 'Men in Black 3'
25 May 2012 12:30 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
There are only a few actors who can charm any room they walk into. Having worked in the industry for years, I've seen it first hand. You may dislike their movie, performance or find their personal life distasteful, but somehow they have a natural charisma that has helped turn them survive the ups and downs of superstardom. Currently, that list includes names such as, yes, John Travolta, George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Robert Downey, Jr., Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Will Smith. Among those eight actors only one has found themselves on the cinematic sidelines for the past three years. »
- Gregory Ellwood
Will Smith Tells High Schoolers The Secret To His Career
24 May 2012 8:06 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York -- The Hayden Planetarium at Manhattan's Natural History Museum has been home to many famous voices over the last decade.
Tom Hanks, Liam Neeson, Harrison Ford and Robert Redford have all hosted space-related video presentations within the planetarium's dome. They don't usually show up in person; you might have a hard time getting anyone to pay attention to the space lesson directly above their heads if they did.
But on Thursday, with 300 public high school kids crammed into the planetarium for an event set up in support of the "Youth Inspired Challenge" program, history museum sponsors tried to combine a science lesson and the presence of a Hollywood megastar.
The kids had just returned from a special screening of "Men in Black 3" -- a movie about science! -- and were only told the screening would be followed with a "special presentation" about the film. When Will Smith came out, »
- Lucas Kavner
Exclusive: Road To Perdition Writer Max Allan Collins Talks Lady, Go Die! And More
23 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | ComicBookMovie.com | See recent ComicBookMovie news »
Max Allan Collins is perhaps best known for his graphic novel Road To Perdition. In 2002, it was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film which starred Tom Hanks and was directed by Skyfall helmer Sam Mendes. Collins is also an award winning author who has written many best-selling novels, including the popular Nathan Heller and Mike Hammer series. It was last year revealed that Harrison Ford will star in an adaptation of his book Black Hats, a story about Wyatt Earp, who ended his career as a private detective in Los Angeles. His latest instalment in the Mike Hammer series (a continuation of the books written by the late Mickey Spillane) is Lady, Go Die! from Titan Books and is on sale now. Below, he talks about that and much more, including whether or not he'd be interested in returning to superhero comics after a controversial run on Batman a few »
Alec Baldwin goes on anti-Republican Twitter rant, calls them 'lying thieves'
23 May 2012 7:35 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Alec Baldwin plays a staunch conservative on 30 Rock, but his personal politics are famously liberal, as demonstrated by a fusillade of anti-Republican tweets yesterday. Baldwin let his opinion loose on some 870,000 followers as he took to Twitter from the Cannes Film Festival, where he wrote, “Away from the noise and vulgarity of the U.S. election. I gotta tell you. It’s been nice.” Only a few hours later, Baldwin blasted the Republican party in a series of tweeted heats (sorry, heated tweets):
Some complain on Twitter about Obama.
You wanna go back? To Bush? Cheney? Paulson? Rumsfeld? Unfunded wars? »
- Marc Snetiker
iCarly Star Noah Munck On Final Season: Expect Jimmy Fallon and Wardrobe Malfunctions
22 May 2012 8:26 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
After five years, the iCarly crew is shutting down their webcams for good — but not before squeezing in at least one more celebrity guest, promises co-star Noah Munck.
During the teen sitcom’s six seasons, the show has welcomed to its show-within-a-show one celeb after another, among them First Lady Michelle Obama, Jane Lynch, Jack Black — and now Jimmy Fallon.
“Jimmy’s [late-night] show is part of the episode we just filmed in New York, and he’s the coolest guy in the world,” Munck tells TVLine. “Hands down, he was my favorite guest star. I’m such a big fan, »
- Alyse Whitney
'Saturday Night Live' poll: Who was the best host of the year?
21 May 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Every Monday morning for as long as I can remember, my classmates or coworkers have had some variation of the following conversation: Did you watch Saturday Night Live, and did you think the host was any good? It was normally very analog: yes or no, thumbs up or thumbs down. Over time, frequent guests became reliable favorites — Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, John Goodman — but no one ever seemed to take the time to step back at the end of the season and ask, Who was the best host this year?
So this season, EW has been relying on your votes »
- Jeff Labrecque
As 'Battleship' Flops: Ten Other Memorable Box-Office Bombs
21 May 2012 10:43 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
To have one giant money-losing tentpole is unfortunate. To have two starts to look careless, and that's what's happened to Taylor Kitsch. The actor, who broke out on TV's "Friday Night Lights," was seen as Hollywood's next great hope, picked out to star in two great big blockbusters with a combined cost of half-a-billion dollars. But when "John Carter" arrived in March, the film wildly underperformed, with Disney taking a hit of at least $100 million on the project. And after this weekend, it looks that his other film, "Battleship," is going to lose similar amounts.
The film, Universal & Hasbro's adaptation of the board game, directed by "Hancock" helmer Peter Berg, had taken the unusual step of opening everywhere else in the world six weeks ahead of the U.S, in the hope of bagging lucrative foreign coin and building buzz for the U.S. release. But while the film did ok abroad, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Will Smith Raps The Old Fresh Prince Theme On British Television
21 May 2012 10:04 AM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
While Men in Black 3 might be selling the idea of going back in time to the beginning of the secretive agency, that's not the kind of time travel that Will Smith fans are asking for. We just want to go back to the 90s, to the days of "Welcome to Earth!" and "Jiggy", when Smith was in a one on one competition with Tom Hanks to be the most likable man in the world and he wasn't a bazillionaire whose huge trailers and offspring were infecting every aspect of our daily lives. That's why it's so wonderful to watch this clip of Smith on the Graham Norton Show, telling us once again about that time his life got flip turned upside down. »
- Jon Bershad
BBC Films Announces New Projects Including Simon Curtis' The Golden Lady
20 May 2012 2:53 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
After the positive reception in Cannes for Rufus Norris' acclaimed Broken which opened Critics Week, BBC Films has unveiled their new slate, reaffirming their commitment to nurturing relationships with filmmakers and developing new talent.
BBC Films is thrilled to be welcoming back former collaborators on a number of exciting projects this year. Following An Education and most recently Dustin Hoffman's Quartet, BBC Films will be working again with Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey of Wildgaze on two projects. Based on Colm Toibin's best-selling novel, Brooklyn will star Rooney Mara and has been adapted by Academy Award nominated Nick Hornby. Hornby's novel, A Long Way Down, has been adapted by Jack Thorne and will be directed by Pascal Chaumeil (Heartbreaker). It will star Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, and Emile Hirsch.
Having worked previously with Jeremy Thomas on Glastonbury and now Julien Temple's The Kinks' film You Really Got Me, »
- MovieWeb
BBC Films Announce "Golden," "Testament"
20 May 2012 10:10 AM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
BBC Films revealed its upcoming slate at Cannes yesterday and revealed information on two new projects according to Yahoo.
The first is that Simon Curtis ("My Week With Marilyn") is set to direct the art-world drama "The Golden Lady" which David M. Thompson will produce.
Penned by playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell, the true story follows Maria Altmann who fought to reclaim several Gustav Klimt paintings, including a family member's portrait, which were stolen from her family by the Nazis in World War II.
The other is that Saoirse Ronan is attached to star in an adaptation of Vera Brittain's 1933 memoir "Testament of Youth".
The story deals with how the first world war affected the women of the U.K. along with Brittain's years as a nurse and journalist. Juliette Towhidi ("Calendar Girls") adapted the script while David Heyman ("Harry Potter") is producing.
The pair join a line-up that includes »
- Garth Franklin
BBC Films Line-Up Includes Simon Curtis' The Golden Lady
20 May 2012 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
BBC Films has announced their upcoming slate at the Cannes Film Festival, and it includes The Golden Lady , a new movie for My Week with Marilyn director Simon Curtis (left), as well as a number of other projects, some already in production and some on the way, including new movies for Saoirse Ronan, Jude Law and Tom Hanks, as well as a new movie starring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge. Simon Curtis' drama The Golden Lady , written by playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell, takes place in the art world, telling the true story of Maria Altmann, who fought to reclaim paintings by Gustav Klimt that were stolen from her family by the Nazis during World War II. They also announced that Irish actress Saoirse Ronan ( Hanna ) will star in Juliette Towhidi's Testament of Youth , adapting »
Wachowskis' 'Cloud Atlas', Rodriguez's 'Sin City 2' and 'Paranoia' Get Release Dates
18 May 2012 10:00 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Things surrounding the Wachowski brothers' return behind the camera on Cloud Atlas became very buzzy in the last 24 hours as a screening of the film took place here in Cannes recently of a 2 hours and 44-minute cut of the film. The screening resulted in what is being reported to be a $20 million pick-up by Warner Bros. with eyes on a December 6 release date later this year. The film, based on the novel by David Mitchell, is an epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another throughout the past, present and future as one soul is shaped from a murderer into a savior and a single act of kindness ripples out for centuries to inspire a revolution. Starring in the feature, which was shot for a reported $101 million, are Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw, Hugo Weaving, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Grant, »
- Brad Brevet
The Wachowski's Cloud Atlas and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Get Release Dates
18 May 2012 2:39 PM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
The release dates of two highly anticipated genre movies have finally been announced.
First up is Cloud Atlas, an adaptation of David Mitchell's award-winning 2004 sci-fi novel that was co-written and co-directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski, (The Matrix) and German filmmaker Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). Warner Bros. (WB) initially passed on Cloud Atlas, feeling that it was unaffordable at $170 million, but the Wachowskis and Tykwer found foreign backers and ended up making it for $101 million — thanks, in part, to Tom Hanks taking a smaller fee for his participation — and WB picked up North American distribution rights at Cannes for "about $20 million" despite the movie's lengthy 2:44 running time exceeding the contractural running time of 2:30. According to IndieWire, producer Grant Hill revealed that WB "plans to open the movie stateside December 6" and may screen it at the Berlin International Film Festival to make it eligible for Oscar consideration. »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Exclusive Media’s Still Of Night Starring Michelle Monaghan And Susan Sarandon; Jonathan Mostow Directs
18 May 2012 1:14 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Exclusive Media will finance and produce the new thriller Still Of Night, written and to be directed by Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3, U-571, Breakdown) and starring Michelle Monaghan (Source Code) with Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) in final negotiations to star, it was announced today by Exclusive Media Co-Chairmen, Nigel Sinclair and Guy East.
Exclusive Media will produce the film alongside writer/director Jonathan Mostow and Steve Alexander.
A paranoia thriller that builds to a pulse-pounding crescendo, Still Of Night is a smart, stylish ride packed with shocking twists that will give you nightmares – because it could actually happen to you. Katie Tyler (Michelle Monaghan) is an aspiring career woman with everything finally falling into place.until her sister Gwen disappears. Fully aware of Gwen.s tainted past and suddenly left to take care of her young daughter, Katie sets out determined to bring her back. But as »
- Michelle McCue
Cloud Atlas Is Nearly 3 Hours Long, Gets December Release Date
18 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
I've never read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, but most people assumed the book was unfilmable. Well, the Wachowski siblings and Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer decided to challenge that assumption, and made a $100 million adaptation of it that's set for release later this year. You may have heard of some of the film's stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon...just a few up-and-comers trying to make it big in the industry.
Anne Thompson did some digging at the Cannes Film Festival, and found out a couple of interesting facts about the film. First off, the version that screened at Cannes was 2 hours and 44 minutes long, which Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov "approved even though it exceeded the contractual two and half hours." Makes sense - the story follows six different stories in six different times and places that intersect somehow (part »
- benp
"Cloud Atlas" Screens For Buyers At Cannes + Gets December Release Date + Pics
17 May 2012 3:31 PM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
A film Halle Berry is in that I can say I'm actually Really looking forward to seeing! It seems like it's been quite awhile since I've said those words. Of course I'm referring to the $100+ million big screen adaptation of David Mitchell's labyrinthine tome Cloud Atlas, which is being written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run), and The Wachowskis, with Halle Berry,Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Keith David,Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, David Gyasi and several others in a variety of roles. The story, as already detailed previously, "weaves history, science, suspense, humor »
- Tambay
Release dates set for Wachowski-Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
17 May 2012 1:43 PM, PDT | GordonandtheWhale | See recent GordonandtheWhale news »
Of all the films currently in production, very few appear to be as inventive or intriguing as the ever-challenging Wachowski siblings and their upcoming teaming with Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas.
Screening for four buyers at Cannes this week, the film has been set to bow stateside on December 6 and will hit Berlin earlier, making the film, according to Anne Thompson, Oscar eligible. Originally budgeted at $170 million, the film ended up costing significantly less, at $101 million. The frugal trifecta apparently found their way around some financial issues, including getting Tom Hanks to bail on his often contractual back-end gross. Considering the cast assembled and its nearly 3 hour-long runtime, the film is definitely sounding like an epic bit of sci-fi.
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- Joshua Brunsting
Release Date and Runtime Announced for The Wachowski Siblings & Tom Twyker’s Cloud Atlas
17 May 2012 11:03 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The Wachowski Siblings and Tom Twyker's highly ambitious adaptation of Cloud Atlas now has a release date and a run-time. According to Thompson on Hollywood, Warner Bros. has picked up distribution rights at Cannes for $20 million, and will release the movie on December 6th. Additionally, the movie reportedly runs at 2-hours and 44-minutes, which seems about right when you consider that the movie spans six time periods, and you have an ensemble cast each playing multiple roles. For example, Hugh Grant will be playing six "incredibly evil" characters in the movie, and Halle Berry said one of her roles is a Jewish woman in the 1930s, and another is an old tribal woman. Hit the jump for a synopsis. Cloud Atlas also stars Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, James D’Arcy, and Jim Sturgess. Surprisingly, the only other film set to open the same weekend as Cloud Atlas »
- Matt Goldberg
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