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Jaimie Alexander Discusses 'Thor' Rehearsals, Debunks Justin Chatwin Casting Rumor

22 December 2009 7:51 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

With director Kenneth Branagh’s highly anticipated “Thor” adaptation set to begin shooting next month, actress Jaimie Alexander has been constantly updating fans with info from the upcoming film.

According to Alexander's Twitter feed, several members of the cast assembled in Los Angeles for rehearsals. “[I] met Anthony Hopkins today... Such a lovely man. Such a pleasure,” wrote Alexander. Later, she added “[I] can't stop staring at Thor's arms... Chris [Hemsworth] is Huge!”

Alexander also took the time to refute a growing rumor that Justin Chatwin (“Dragonball Evolution”) had been cast as Thor’s loyal ally, Balder the Brave. “Justin Chatwin isn't going to be in ‘Thor’,” revealed Alexander. “Just clearing up another rumor. Sleep well out there.”

Back in September, Alexander joined the cast of “Thor” as Sif, a fierce warrior goddess who has vied for Thor’s heart in the past. While Alexander has previously written about her intense »

- Blair Marnell

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What are the best and worst movie accents of the decade?

21 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Yesterday, NPR printed an article about the best and worst movie accents of the decade, asking readers to submit their votes on what actor should nab the award in both categories. As the EW writer who a few years ago helmed our Worst Movie Accents gallery, I decided to look at their choices. (And, unfortunately, since film's all-time worst movie accent -- Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves -- was brought to screens in 1991, it is not eligible for this award.) As far as the best accents go, NPR offers up four: Morgan Freeman in Invictus, Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, »

- Kate Ward

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Anna Kendrick Lands a Nod at 2010 SAG Awards

17 December 2009 5:46 PM, PST | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »

Anna Kendrick has really struck the gold with her Natalie Keener role in "Up in the Air". Having won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and been nominated at the 67th Annual Golden Globes, the actress who plays Jessica Stanley in the "Twilight Saga" series is nominated for another prestigious awards, the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

On Thursday morning, December 17, the 24-year-old has been named among the nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. For the title, she will be competing against fellow "Up in the Air" star Vera Farmiga as well as other

nominees, Penelope Cruz of "Nine", Mo'Nique of "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" and Diane Kruger of "Inglourious Basterds".

Beside Anna Kendrick, the Screen Actors Guild also put her co-star and leading

man of the drama movie George Clooney for the Best Actor category. »

- celebrity-mania.com

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List of 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominees

17 December 2009 5:27 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Next year's list of Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations puts three films and three television shows under three categories. In terms of number, critics' choice "Up in the Air" is battling it out with "Inglourious Basterds" and "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" while "30 Rock" gets heavy competition from "Dexter" and "The Closer".

The nominees that were read out on Thursday, December 17, also revealed that several actors receive multiple nominations. In motion picture category, Penelope Cruz earns two for starring in "Nine". In television, Tina Fey scores also two for being the lead of "30 Rock". Her co-star Alec Baldwin is also having two chances to walk away with an award.

Nomination by studio for theatrical motion pictures is led by Paramount Pictures which distributes "Up in the Air", "The Lovely Bones" and "Star Trek". Meanwhile, nomination by television network is dominated by NBC which is the home for »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Orwellian slapstick in dystopian comedy Sertoli, Sertoli, Sertoli

17 December 2009 1:59 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

British newcomer Owen Williams writes and directs Sertoli, Sertoli, Sertoli, a scifi short that puts a particularly comedic spin on the whole Orwellian dystopia thing.

Similar in tone to Brazil, but more in keeping with the micro-budget aesthetic of its Australian sister film, Eraser Children, the short is right up our alley.

Synopsis:

When an underground resistance movement seeks to uncover the truth behind the Second Branch and the Great Conduit, they send in their top man, Guy Lance, to infiltrate the corporate behemoth Sertoli, Sertoli, Sertoli.

In this strange tale, set in an Orwellian state, Guy Lance is the Y.S.R.M's only hope for truth. What is really at the end of the Great Conduit? Is the Second Branch a lie? Has everyone remembered their tie?

The film stars Michael Dixon who you may have missed in Alexander if you blinked, but who just walked off the »

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Screen Actors Guild Nominations Announced

17 December 2009 9:57 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

The morning the Screen Actors Guild announced the nominees for the 16th annual SAG awards. The actual ceremony will be held Saturday, January 23rd. There are a lot of gay-faves on the list of nominees.

For starters, Colin Firth picked up a nomination for A Single Man,and Sigourney Weaver is in the running for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries thanks to Prayers for Bobby.

Freshmen series Glee and Modern Family are competing against each other for Beest TV Comedy Ensemble.

And surprisingly (at least for me) the cast of True Blood is up for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

You can check out the full list of nominess after the break!

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges / Bad Blake - "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

George Clooney / Ryan Bingham »

- dennis

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The Notable Films of 2010: Part One

15 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

After such success with this last year, today comes the first in a multi-chapter look at the various cinematic releases hitting the U.S. in 2010.

Each 'Volume' contains brief descriptions and editorial opinion/analysis of around 25-30 films, and at present it's looking to run around nine volumes in length.

Expect the remaining ones to go up between now and the first official weekend of releases on January 8th.

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Opens: 2010

Cast: Jason Statham, Alexander Skarsgard, Mickey Rourke, Ray Winstone, 50 Cent

Director: Géla Babluani

Summary: A remake of 2005 French thriller "13 (Tzameti)". A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

Analysis: Remakes are very common, the same director remaking his own film in English is rarer but still not unheard of ("Funny Games," "Bangkok Dangerous," "The »

- Garth Franklin

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Kourtney Kardashian Welcomes a Baby Boy

14 December 2009 10:00 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

It's a boy for Kourtney Kardashian!

The reality TV star, 30, and Scott Disick, 26, welcomed Mason Dash Disick on Dec. 14, her rep confirms to E! Online and Life & Style. He weighed in at 7 lbs., 6 oz., and was 19 inches long. Dash is the name of the Kardashian clothing boutique.

Kardashian, who's best known for "Keeping up with the Kardashians," and her beau announced they were expecting in September.

This is the first child for both Kardashian and Disick. »

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Hollywood messes our myths

13 December 2009 4:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

We shouldn't get excited about Us film-makers reinterpreting Europe's legends. After all, we've done a bit of that ourselves

Joe Queenan argued in the Guardian recently that Hollywood had taken 10 years to destroy the legends of European history and that film-makers had completely lost sight of what made these ancient myths so beloved.

I don't agree with him. Sure, these movies play with the historical truth a bit. Sure, they simplify the complexities and problems posed by these ancient legends. Sure, they sometimes make bad choices in casting. But just because we may not like them, does that make them worthless – or worse, a destructive force? I don't think so.

Take Queenan's objection to film-makers changing the storyline. Modern moviemakers aren't the first to do it. Epics such as the Iliad weren't written down in the ancient world for an awfully long time – they existed initially as oral poetry. and »

- Michael Scott

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Q&A: Jared Leto

11 December 2009 4:34 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

'My most embarrassing moment? It had to do with karaoke and Eye Of The Tiger'

Jared Leto was born in Louisiana in 1971. He went to New York's School of Visual Arts, and in 1994 was cast opposite Claire Danes in the television series My So-Called Life. His movies include Fight Club, Requiem For A Dream and Alexander, and he put on 67lbs (more than 30kg) to play John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, in Chapter 27. Next February, he will tour the UK with his band, 30 Seconds To Mars.

What is your earliest memory?

Fireworks and a wolf.

When were you happiest?

I'm hoping that hasn't happened yet.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Stephen Hawking – a great example of triumph in the face of adversity.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

The need to sleep.

What is the trait you most deplore in others? »

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Kendra Wilkinson Welcomes a Son

11 December 2009 9:24 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Sporty Playboy playmate Kendra Wilkinson and her pro footballer husband Hank Baskett are the proud new parents of a healthy bouncing baby boy.

E! reports the sexy blonde welcomed her son, Hank Baskett IV, just after midnight Friday morning in Indianapolis. The baby, delivered by C-section, weighed in at a healthy 9 lbs., 5 ozs.

"We're happy and healthy and enjoying every second with little Hank," the couple said in a statement Friday.

In August, the former »

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Kendra Wilkinson Is in Labor!

9 December 2009 6:35 PM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Former Playboy playmate Kendra Wilkinson and husband Hank Baskett are about to become first-time parents!

According to E! News, Wilkinson, 24, has entered an Indianapolis area hospital and is expected to give birth to Hank Baskett IV at any moment.

Kendra's ex, Hugh Hefner, got wind of the impending delivery, and tells E! News, "I send my love to Kendra, Hank and the baby on this memorable day."

In August, the former "Girls Next Door" star wrote on her blog, »

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Madonna's Son 'Knows Every Word' to Her Songs

9 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Madonna's 4-year-old son David is following in her footsteps!

"He knows every song, every word, every step, and he wants to wear all the costumes," the singer dished on the British morning show "GMTV." "He likes my dress that I wear in 'La Isla' [Bonita]."

Big brother Rocco also loves performing. The 9-year-old joined Madonna on stage during her Sticky & Sweet tour.

See photos of Madonna from over the years

"When he jumped on stage to dance in my last show, »

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Thor Updates: Rehearsals Begin & Stan Lee’s Cameo

7 December 2009 4:50 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Marvel Studios’ upcoming production of Thor, the Mighty God of Thunder, is about to get underway in January as we’ve seen a stream of updates in recent months leading up to the exciting project.

In just the last few weeks alone, Idris Elba and Kat Dennings joined the ensemble cast along with Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano as The Warriors Three; Joe Quesada’s talked up the movie and its director, Kenneth Branagh. And last but not least, rumors of Jeremy Renner playing Hawkeye have spread with the possibility of the character having a cameo role in Thor.

With all of the casting announcements, one thing was missing: Stan Lee’s role! Stan talked in a few interviews about meeting director Branagh, praising him and revealing that Branagh promised him a role in the movie.  Now it has been confirmed from Stan the Man himself!

 

On his Twitter account yesterday, »

- Rob Keyes

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How Hollywood destroyed our classical legends

3 December 2009 2:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

It took a millennium for western civilisation to create a canon of classical literature – but just 10 years for Hollywood to destroy it

When I think back on this decade's spate of movies based on the great legends of European history, I remember how fantastically it started – with Gladiator – and how badly things went downhill after that: with Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, 300 and Beowulf. When I saw Gladiator in 2000, I thought this was going to be just the best millennium ever. It had everything you could want in a movie: glory, gore, guts, gladiators. It was a sweeping epic with a computer-generated cast of thousands. Augustus Caesar would have been proud of it. Julius and Tiberius, too.

Yet the thing I liked most about Ridley Scott's superb film was how closely it hewed to the historical record, in its portrayal of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) as the depraved son of Marcus Aurelius, »

- Joe Queenan

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Lisa Loeb Welcomes Baby Girl

1 December 2009 12:06 PM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb and her husband Roey Hershkovitz welcomed their first child last weekend.

People magazine reports Lyla Rose Loeb Hershkovitz was born Sunday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Loeb, 41, and Hershkovitz, 31, first announced they were expecting in September.

The Grammy nominee and "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" music supervisor met in 2006 and married last January.

Celebrity BabiesBeach Bums

Surfer dude Matthew McConaughey totes son Levi during a sandy walk in Malibu. »

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6 Actors That Should Probably Not Watch Their Own Movies

23 November 2009 7:16 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

When I interviewed Bill Nighy last year, three things seemed to stand out about the man. One, he shakes hands with only the front part of three fingers like I have to imagine witches do. Two, he had a greater sense of humor about himself than anyone else I've ever met. Three, he was insanely, effortlessly cool. He continues to exude both coolness and the self-effacing grace that makes him such a charismatic personality (aside from the willingness to star in serious work and movies about werewolves fighting vampires) by claiming that he can't stand the experience of watching movies that he's in. He, like most actors who have thrown out that claim in the past, seems completely put off by seeing himself on screen. Hardly an original claim, but one that rings true for anyone who has ever seen a bad photo of themselves (be they regional theater actors or international film stars). So I decided »

- Dr. Cole Abaius

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Katherine Heigl Celebrates Daughter's 1st B-Day

23 November 2009 11:20 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Katherine Heigl's adopted daughter Naleigh turns 1 Monday.

The mother/daughter duo attended Heigl's sister's baby shower Sunday night in Los Angeles.

Heigl celebrates her 31st birthday Tuesday. The "Grey's Anatomy" star and her husband, Josh Kelley, adopted Naleigh from Korea last September.

Celebrity TotsFowl Fun

Tom Brady and his little man John feed the birds at the Famous Granville Market in Vancouver.

Jet-Setting Baby

Bronx Mowgli travels in style! The baby was snapped »

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Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'

19 November 2009 3:54 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The star of Stephen Poliakoff's forthcoming Glorious 39 on his neuroses, playing educated toffs and why he digs David Hare

"A machiavellian dandy . . . Pure coldheartedness . . . Fabulously insincere." As I read out reviews of an old Bill Nighy performance, the actor grimaces and drums his knuckles on the table. "If ever a face was made for villainy, it's Bill Nighy's," I continue. "Wow," he murmurs. "Nighy's decadently long jaw and narrow, sneaky eyes serve him well . . ." He snorts, amused. "Sneaky eyes! Long decadent jaw! My God. I didn't know I had a decadent jaw."

Perhaps it is how Glorious 39 unfolds around him that makes you never quite trust Nighy as Alexander Keyes, a devoted father and aristocratic Conservative MP in Stephen Poliakoff's sumptuous new thriller about appeasement, set on the eve of the second world war. But perhaps Nighy has a singular talent for projecting unreliability into charming characters. »

- Patrick Barkham

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Jaimie Alexander Goes 'Beyond Sore' For 'Thor' Training Regimen

16 November 2009 11:16 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

With "Thor" shooting set to begin in January, it's no surprise that the actors portraying the inhabitants of Asgard are getting in shape for their godly roles.

Jaimie Alexander, who joined the "Thor" cast in September as the "skilled Asgardian warrior" Sif, has been posting updates from the front lines of her intense training regimen. According to Alexander's Twitter feed, the "Kyle Xy" actress has not only been pumping up for the role, but she's also been getting in a hefty amount of stunt training, too.

"Gearing up for a full week of stunts! I Love My Job!" she posted yesterday.

The latest update arrives after Alexander confessed on November 6 to being nervous about the upcoming "Thor" training.

"Wow.......that was pretty dang tough....but a sh*t ton of fun!!!! need to sit in an ice bath for year.....am beyond Sore!" she reported hours later.

In her role as Sif, »

- Rick Marshall

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