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Sharon Stone goes to see sick dad

7 July 2009 2:46 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

Sharon Stone's representative has denied reports police detained her at an airport. It has been alleged the 'Basic Instinct' star was met by law enforcement officers after getting into an argument with a flight attendant about her bag before a Delta flight from Kalispell, Montana, to Salt Lake City took off, but her representative insists she requested security guards met her from the plane. Spokesman Paul Bloch said: "The people waiting were private security hired by Sharon. She was not detained by police. "Sharon had been visiting her father in Montana, and was approved to take both bags on the plane. When she got to the plane, she told me the stewardess screamed at her that she

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Sharon Stone not in flight row

7 July 2009 2:46 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

Sharon Stone's representative has denied reports police detained her at an airport. It has been alleged the 'Basic Instinct' star was met by law enforcement officers after getting into an argument with a flight attendant about her bag before a Delta flight from Kalispell, Montana, to Salt Lake City took off, but her representative insists she requested security guards met her from the plane. Spokesman Paul Bloch said: "The people waiting were private security hired by Sharon. She was not detained by police. "Sharon had been visiting her father in Montana, and was approved to take both bags on the plane. When she got to the plane, she told me the stewardess screamed at her that she couldn't take both

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Sharon Stone Not Detained By Airport Police Claims Spokesman

6 July 2009 11:04 PM, PDT | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

Sharon Stone's representative has denied reports police detained her at an airport.

It has been alleged the 'Basic Instinct' star was met by law enforcement officers after getting into an argument with a flight attendant about her bag before a Delta flight from Kalispell, Montana, to Salt Lake City took off, but her representative insists she requested security guards met her from the plane.

Spokesman Paul Bloch said: "The people waiting were private security hired by Sharon. She was not detained by police.

"Sharon had been visiting her father in Montana, and was approved to take both bags on the plane. When she got to the plane, she told me the stewardess screamed at her that she couldn't take both bags on board." said Bloch.

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Did You Hear the One About Sharon Stone's Air Rage?

6 July 2009 2:26 PM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

It's a good thing that ice picks are on the Tsa's banned list. That was the first thought through our heads after reading a report that claimed Sharon Stone was greeted by police at Salt Lake City Airport after some kind of scuffle with a Delta cabin crew over her refusal to check her carry-on. But fear not, travelers, while people in uniform did meet the 51-year-old actress at the gates, contrary to the claims in a Stylist.com report, it was not because Stone went Basic Instinct... "The airport police were requested by her," airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann tells E! News. "She was traveling alone and had requested in advance if we could give her special assistance because she was...

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Watch this: From Hell to Heaven all in an elevator ride

5 July 2009 2:46 PM, PDT | From Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news

One of my pals emailed me today about an interesting video mural that's installed in the elevator of the Standard Hotel in New York City. Displayed through the glass wall inside the elevator is a surreal, short film created by director Marco Brambilla, the guy that gave us the cheesy '90s flicks Demolition Man and Excess Baggage and then fell off of Hollywood's radar. Brambilla was asked by the owner of the Standard Hotel to think up a film that the elevator passengers could watch while going up or down. Given complete autonomy to dream up whatever he liked, Brambilla came up with "Civilization", a three-minute video showing a journey from Hell to Heaven -- or, if you're headed from a top floor down, Heaven to Hell -- using clips from hundreds of Hollywood movies over the years. The end product is fascinating, trippy, mesmerizing and I would imagine

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Patrick Sauriol

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Zac Efron Gets Sexay

24 June 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

It looks like our beloved tween king really wants to move on from the glitz and glamor of tweendom. They grow up so quickly! Remember when Zac Efron bowed out of Footloose hoping to stop the neverending roll of typecasting after the High School Musicals and Hairspray? Well, he's taken his next step towards making that possible. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Efron will star in an upcoming untitled thriller for Mandate Pictures, one that he will also executive produce.

We're not getting any plot details yet, except for three words. It will be "a sexy thriller." Something along the lines of Basic Instinct? Mulholland Drive? I'm more inclined to believe that it's just an adult thriller, and Mr. Executive Producer wanted some sort of description released to alert us to the more adult fare. As we all know very well by now, "sex," "sexy," "stripper," and those other saucy

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Monika Bartyzel

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Dolls outfits recreate iconic movie costumes

17 June 2009 4:24 AM, PDT | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

There’s no doubting the enduring power of Cinderella story Pretty Woman. The fairytale romance between Edward (Richard Gere), a rich businessman and Vivian (Julia Roberts), a woman of the night (how’s that for a euphemism your parents would approve of?) consistently produces bestselling special anniversary DVD editions (10th!, 15th! Won’t be long now until the 20th spookily enough) and was recently named as featuring the nation’s favourite movie moment (when Vivian sticks it to the snooty shop assistant) and so as we continue to scratch this Pretty Woman itch, we were thrilled to stumble upon website, Lisa’s Doll Closet which sells miniature replicas of some of Vivian’s best-loved costumes. Can’t afford the Rodeo Drive originals? No problem, get the doll-size version!

The site is a fantastic resource for those interested in Franklin Mint vinyl dolls and provides patterns as well as being home

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[DVD Review] Fatal Attraction

11 June 2009 5:45 PM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Between this film and Basic Instinct, you’d be tempted to assume Michael Douglas was making his bread playing alternatively put-upon or predatory every-men involved in high-stakes lust games with gorgeous women. In the case of Fatal Attraction however, the woman in question is Glenn Close, who few people would expect when considering a bombastically unhinged romantic interest. Where Paul Verhoeven infused his work with cautionary sexual energy, here director Adrian Lyne deals with the ennui of an ordinary married life and the tense body-wrecking pull of an affair. Lyne’s work has always dealt with questions of the mind and the body (he made the steamy Nine 1/2 Weeks and the generally underrated Jacob’s Ladder before and after this film, respectively, following up with Indecent Proposal), and he approaches thriller elements from a subdued standpoint, leading up to a shocking climax on a scene-by-scene basis. Fatal Attraction is likely his most famous film,

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Mark Zhuravsky

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[DVD Review] Indecent Proposal

9 June 2009 9:57 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Much in the way that Basic Instinct the previous year had Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs and the whole world hitting the pause button to the exclusion of everything else in the movie, Indecent Proposal was a film that rode to success on a single, solitary aspect of itself – the premise. Indecent Proposal ran with the oh-so nineties idea of a down-on-their-luck couple, David and Diana (Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore), facing financial ruin only to be offered a lifeline by billionaire industrialist John Gage (Robert Redford). Gage offers to pay them $1 million for one night with her, thus putting the question to couples all over the world – what would you do? In a time before the internet and our tabloid culture had erased the word taboo from our vocabulary, this became dinner-party catnip for the sexually repressed masses.

While this simple tale of true love and sanitized prostitution marketed

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Neil Pedley

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Yahoo Poll Anoints Silence of The Lambs As Best Thriller

7 June 2009 7:32 AM, PDT | From The Cinema Post | See recent The Cinema Post news

Yahoo Movies asked it’s readers to vote recently for what they think is the best Thriller of all time. The classic Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster film “Silence of The Lambs” won the poll with 25% of the vote. Do you agree? It’s a tough list.

Have a look at the full list of choices below and let us know in the comments which film you would have voted for!

Silence of the Lambs –25% of votes

Seven – 20% of votes

The Shining – 11% of votes

L.A. Confidential – 10% of votes

Basic Instinct – 8% of votes

Cape Fear – 7% of votes

Taxi Driver – 7% of votes

Fatal Attraction – 5% of votes

Falling Down – 4% of votes

Momento – 3% of votes

The poll was carried out in association with the new Metrodome Distribution film “Anything For Her”.

Anything For Her see’s Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) as a happily married couple, still passionately in love, who

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Paul Larn

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Silence of the Lambs crowned best thriller in poll

5 June 2009 3:55 AM, PDT | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

It scooped oodles of Oscars, put star Anthony Hopkins firmly on Hollywood’s A-list and made fava beans and Chianti just about the scariest meal ever. Just thinking about it is enough to give you chills and so it’s not surprising that 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs has been voted the best thriller in a new poll. The adaptation of the bestselling novel by Thomas Harris scored 25 percent of the vote in the Yahoo! Movies poll, which was conducted to celebrate the release of French film, Anything For Her starring Diane Kruger out in UK cinemas today. And which other movies did Hannibal Lecter beat? Click over to find out.

Coming a close second in the survey was David Fincher’s gory Se7en with 20 percent and in third place was Jack Nicholson finding that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” in Stanley Kubrick’s

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'Total Recall' Revamp Coming

3 June 2009 1:46 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news

Columbia Pictures is moving ahead with a remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action flick Total Recall, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The script for the new version is being written by Kurt Wimmer. Wimmer wrote the upcoming Salt, starring Angelina Jolie, and Law Abiding Citizen, which will star Gerard Butler. Wimmer's take is said to be a "contemporized adaptation."

Schwarzenegger's Total Recall was directed by Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Basic Instinct) and co-starred Sharon Stone. It was based on the novellete "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" By Philip K. Dick. Dick's story focuses on Douglas Quail, a man who secures the services of a company called Rekal to implant memories of a trip to Mars in his mind. The result is more dangerous than expected. Dick also wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", on which the film Blade Runner was based.

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Lambs Named Best Thriller

3 June 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Anthony Hopkins movie The Silence Of The Lambs has been named Britain's favourite thriller in a new poll.

The 1991 film, which won five Academy Awards, topped a shortlist of ten pictures with more than a quarter of the total votes.

Brad Pitt's 1995 crime/horror Seven came in second place with 20 per cent, and Stephen King's The Shining was ranked third with 11 per cent, in the survey carried out by Yahoo Movies.

The top five was rounded out by L.A. Confidential and Basic Instinct.

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Halle Berry May Fight Insane Pregnant Woman

1 June 2009 6:59 PM, PDT | From newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news

Halle Berry is in discussions to headline The Surrogate for 20th Century Fox, a thriller about a couple who discovers their surrogate mother is insane.  Think Baby Mama only less funny.

No official deal has been reached, but she’s being considered for the female portion of the couple, according to Variety.

Berry would be returning to the screen after a short hiatus to have a child of her own.  The last movie she starred in was Things We Lost in the Fire in 2007.  Just in case you forgot, she won an Oscar in 2002, which I can only assume she’s been using to fend off the critics since then with some truly terrible movie choices.  Just from personal experience, the best way to deal with a crazy pregnant lady is to threaten to make them watch Catwoman.

Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Basic Instinct) was announced as the director just days before.

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Jeff Leins

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Halle Berry Interested In Joining Paul Verhoeven’s ‘The Surrogate’

1 June 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

Halle Berry wants to be good and scared again. Not satisfied with being chased around an insane asylum in “Gothika,” Berry is interested in tangling with a crazed baby mama in “The Surrogate,” the latest from director Paul Verhoeven (”Basic Instinct”).

As we reported last week, “The Surrogate” has nothing in common with the similarly titled upcoming sci-fi movie starring Bruce Willis. This “Surrogate” is based on Kathryn Mackel’s 2004 novel. Forced by medical circumstances into hiring a surrogate mother, a childless couple settles on an apparently perfect candidate. Unfortunately, the woman turns out to be insane. Should’ve checked those references better, eh? According to The Hollywood Reporter, Berry would play the would-be mother, not the insane surrogate. While official negotiations haven’t begun with Berry, Fox is eager for their “X-Men” star to sign on. Seeing as she is fresh off a long maternity leave, she could certainly

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Halle Berry set to star in Verhoeven's The Surrogate

1 June 2009 7:14 AM, PDT | From The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news

X-men star Halle Berry is set to star in new thriller The Surrogate, to be directed by Paul Verhoeven in his return to Hollywood film-making.

X-Men franchise producer Ralph Winter is also involved with the 20th Century Fox project, which is based on the 2004 book by Kathryn Mackel.

The story centres on a couple desperate to have a child who find to their horror that the surrogate they hired to carry their baby is insane.

Berry - who starred as weather-manipulating Storm in the X-Men franchise - would play the wife wanting the child, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Verhoeven made a name directing the classics Total Recall and Basic Instinct. But then his success faltered. His 1995 film Showgirls won seven Golden Raspberry Awards including worst film and worst director.

In 1997 there was mixed reaction to Starship Troopers (a movie I loathed and the only time I've almost walked out

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David Bentley

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Halle Berry May Star in Verhoeven's The Surrogate

1 June 2009 2:24 AM, PDT | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news

The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Halle Berry is in talks to star in The Surrogate, directed by Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers).

The thriller marks Verhoeven's return to Hollywood after helming the critically acclaimed Dutch-language Black Book and the period piece The Winter Queen, which is still in production.

The script for The Surrogate will stem from the novel by Kathryn Mackel. If cast, Berry would play the part of Bethany Dolan, a wife struggling to bear children. The Dolans find a surrogate mother in Sable, a computer expert who convinces the couple to let her into the family. Sable, however, has a shady past that becomes more of a danger as the pregnancy progresses. The cover of the novel labels it as a "Christian Chiller," although it's unclear if the religious and supernatural elements of the story will translate to the big-screen adaptation.

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Rich Z Zwelling

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Paul Verhoeven Takes on The Surrogate

31 May 2009 9:59 PM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news

Paul Verhoeven, whose credits include Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers, has signed on to develop and direct The Surrogate, a thriller for 20th Century Fox. Halle Berry is in talks to star. Based on the 2004 book by Kathryn Mackel, the story centers on a couple desperate to have a child who find themselves in an unbearable position when they find out the surrogate they hired to carry their baby is insane. Berry would play the wife who wants to have the child. Father and son Roderick and Bruce Taylor (The Brave One) wrote the original draft. The project was originally set up at Fox Atomic but moved to Fox proper when Atomic closed down earlier this year. Berry, whose last big screen appearances were in 2007 with Things We Lost in the Fire and the Bruce Willis thriller Perfect Stranger, recently wrapped production on the drama Frankie and Alice.

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James Cook

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Halle Berry Rumored For Paul Verhoeven's 'Surrogate'

31 May 2009 6:39 PM, PDT | From www.actressarchives.com | See recent Actress Archives news

One thing's for sure: Whether it stars Halle Berry or not, 20th Century Fox's "The Surrogate" is going to be messed up. Not in a bad way, but rather in the way that all films helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven tend to be.Having been responsible for films such as "Basic Instinct," "Robocop," "Starship Troopers" and "Showgirls," no one can mix sex and violence quite like Verhoeven. Known for tackling odd subject matter (not to mention throwing in unisex shower scenes whenever he can), if anyone can run with a storyline like "a couple who hire a surrogate to carry their child find out mid-term that the surrogate is insane," it's him. A ...

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Paul Verhoeven to Make "The Surrogate"

31 May 2009 5:01 AM, PDT | From www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news

Dutch director Paul Verhoeven ("Black Book") will develop and direct 20th Century Fox thriller "The Surrogate". Ralph Winter is producing via his Winter Road production company along with Deborah Giarratana, Robin Guthrie and Susana Zepeda. Based on the 2004 book by Kathryn Mackel, the story centers on a couple desperate to have a child who find themselves in an unbearable position when they find out the surrogate they hired to carry their baby is insane. Roderick Taylor and Bruce Taylor wrote the original draft. Verhoeven's credits include "Robocop", "Total Recall", "Starship Troopers" and "Basic Instinct". He is also developing "The Winter Queen", with Milla Jovovich attached to star....

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