7 items from 2012
11 May 2012 10:13 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Andrew Garfield, The Amazing Spider-Man trailer "This life is not an easy one," says Andrew Garfield / Peter Parker in this latest The Amazing Spider-Man trailer. (Please scroll down.) "I’ve made enemies,” adds Parker / Garfield. “Powerful enemies. I’ve put those I love in danger. But the one thing that has haunted me my entire life is finding the truth about my parents." One of Peter Parker’s (aka Spider-Man’s) enemies is The Lizard (Rhys Ifans). Another is Emma Stone’s father, who has 500 cops looking for poor Peter. With The Lizard, the monolithic Oscorp Corporation, and the useless cops after him, what’s a DC superhero to do? Call Marvel’s The Avengers? Nope. Come and get the truth about his parents. And weave a web or two throughout New York City along the way. In addition to Andrew Garfield, Rhys Ifans, and Emma Stone, The Amazing Spider-Man »
- Zac Gille
3 May 2012 7:17 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Amazing Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone Watching the new The Amazing Spider-Man trailer, it’s hard — make that impossible — not to compare it to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, another summer 2012 movie based on comic books, featuring a distraught superhero, terrifying villains, and a major attack in New York City aka Gotham City. So, which one comes out on top, Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne / Batman or Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker / Spider-Man? Well, perhaps both, depending on who’s watching. Whereas Warner Bros.’ somber-toned The Dark Knight Rises is clearly aimed at a more adult crowd, The Amazing Spider-Man’s distributor Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures is apparently after the teenage and pre-teen crowd — notice the brighter colors, juvenile humor, emphasis on action and explosions — with just enough psychological conflict to let us know The Amazing Spider-Man is not all about big kabooms and funky costumes. »
- Zac Gille
19 March 2012 8:28 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Some were huge in their day, with hit records, popular movies and roles on top TV shows. But we haven’t seen them much lately — or for years. Here’s what they’ve been up to recently.
Sam Jones
The onetime Playgirl centerfold and star of Flash Gordon (1980) went on to star in 1986’s My Chauffer and the 1987-88 TV series The Highwayman. While starring roles were hard to come by, Jones occasionally appeared in minor TV and movie roles up until 2007. He is reportedly now the CEO of a security company providing protection for high-profile clients all over the world.
For those too young to know of her, think Shakira’s dance moves and Sofia Vergara’s sexy comic timing — in one person. Known for her trademark “Cuchi-Cuchi” and her frequent Love Boat and Tonight Show appearances in the ’70s and ’80s, Charo, whose full name is Maria »
- JMc
22 February 2012 10:15 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Put down those Pop Rocks and Diet Cokes. We’ve got some A-list myths to examine! Ahead of this Sunday’s Oscars, we’ll be taking a look at some of the most famous myths to rise out of the annual awards ceremony. Want to know if being nude will get you a Best Actress statue? Or if the Best Supporting Actress trophy is indeed a curse? You’re in luck – we’ll be investigating one Oscars-related urban legend each day this week. Today, we investigate whether playing a gay character will automatically get you a statue. In the past 25 years, »
- Sandra Gonzalez
21 January 2012 6:31 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer's semi-autobiographical off-Broadway play about a New Yorker confronted with AIDS in the early years of the pandemic, has been a perennial "movie project." In the last couple of decades, Oscar winners Barbra Streisand and John Schlesinger have at some point in time announced they were going to tackle it, but to date no film version of The Normal Heart has reached the production stages. [Photo: Matt Bomer.] Now, enter Glee creator and movie director Ryan Murphy (Running with Scissors, Eat Pray Love), who optioned the film rights to the play last summer following its Broadway revival success: The Normal Heart won Tonys for Best Revival, Best Supporting Actor (John Benjamin Hickey), and Best Supporting Actress (Ellen Barkin). Murphy apparently hasn't been sitting idly. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Normal Heart already has a cast: Eat Pray Love's Julia Roberts (who'll next be seen as the »
- Andre Soares
20 January 2012 9:00 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Since 1990 the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (or GLAAD) has been celebrating productions that present "Fair, Accurate and Inclusive Representations" of the Lgbt community with the Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Giving some perspective on where we stood as a culture at that time of the first GLAAD Media Awards, the premiere winners went to television shows like the willfully transgressive TV drama thirtysomething and the society-skewering sketch series The Tracey Ullman Show. It wasn't until the following year that GLAAD honors extended to film, where the allegorical Handmaid's Tale and AIDs-centered drama Longtime Companion won honors. 2012 marks the GLAAD Media Awards 23rd year, and the ceremony has grown from a small affair to a lavish and celebrity-studded string of festivities that take place in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Fittingly, this year's nominees (via Deadline) include features with A-listers as well as films from all over the »
3 January 2012 8:18 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Monday night's season premiere of "The Bachelor" featured Ben Flajnik, a 29-year-old winemaker and Ashley Hebert reject. Ben managed to narrow his pool of 25 women to just 18 by the end of the night, and axed Lindzi, the contestant who made a grand entrance on a horse.
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7 items from 2012
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