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Provocative New Photos of Selena Gomez, James Franco and Vanessa Hudgens from Spring Breakers
6 hours ago | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
A new round of photo stills for Director Harmony Korine’s movie ‘Spring Breakers’ has been released. The crime drama includes James Franco in the lead role, playing a drug and arms dealer by the name of Alien who talks a group of young twenty-something year old’s to do his dirty work for him after he bails them out of jail on spring break. The four girls are played by former Disney darling Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez, and Rachel Korine. The new photos from the set of ‘Spring Breakers’ features Franco holding a gun to Hudgens and Benson’s heads while the ‘High School Musical’ star smokes a cigarette. The [ Read More ] »
- Sarah Anne Luoma
Zac Efron Drama 'At Any Price' Goes to Exclusive Media
22 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Zac Efron will continue to try to prove that there's life after "High School Musical" by co-starring with Dennis Quaid in the family drama "At Any Price." Exclusive Media said Monday that it has acquired international rights in all media to the feature film. Of late, the baby-faced Efron has been trying to take on more adult roles in films like Lee Daniels' upcoming sexually charged thiller "The Paperboy." In "At Any Price," the attempt to shed his Tommy Kirk-like image continues. Efron will play rebellious Dean Whipple (Efron), who wants to pursue »
- Brent Lang
Scary or Die Makes it to VOD
14 May 2012 12:01 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Formerly known as Terror Bytes, the anthology film Scary or Die is now available on Video On Demand. With scary clowns, zombies and vampires, this film has all the bases covered.
Corbin Bleu of High School Musical is co-producing and appears in one of the film's segments, marking the star's first foray into the horror genre. Atta boy, Corbin, welcome to the dark side. For updates, check out the Facebook page for Scary or Die and we've got the freaky clown-filled trailer below. Check it out.
Synopsis
With Korean vampires, Mexican zombies, Cajun conjurers, and the Irish undead...or as the producers like to call it, “just another night in the City of Angels,” Scary or Die tells four multi-ethnic, interwoven stories that all take place in and around Los Angeles.
Corbin Bleu’s segment, titled Clowned, tells the story of a young street hustler (Bleu) who gets bitten by »
- Doctor Gash
Hollywood's new breed of young directors eye top prize at Cannes
14 May 2012 3:52 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The A-list stars will be on the red carpet, but the focus in Cannes will be on a fresh generation of adventurous film-makers
France's wealthy and starry might be preparing to flee the country to avoid taxes levied by the incoming Socialist president, François Hollande, but for the next two weeks at least the Americans are flooding in.
"American cinema is back in force," announced the boss of the Cannes film festival, Thierry Frémaux, when he revealed that the lineup competing for the Palme d'Or this year contains six Us-based movies, the strongest number for many years.
Films such as Killing Them Softly, The Paperboy, Mud and On The Road mean that stars including Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Reese Witherspoon and Kristen Stewart will be climbing the red-carpeted steps to ensure that the eyes of the world again fall on Cannes, which kicks off on Wednesday. According to »
- Jason Solomons
Weekend Box Office: 'The Avengers' Crosses The $1 Billion Mark In 19 Days; Registers First-Ever $100 Million Second Weekend
13 May 2012 8:57 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Meanwhile, 'Dark Shadows' Casts None
When a movie scores the biggest opening weekend of all time (by nearly $40 million, in this case), the expectation is that it should continue to smash records. So, at a glance, “The Avengers” scoring the largest second weekend in film history isn’t exactly newsworthy. Though most prognosticators pegged the film, following a stupefying opening act of $207 million, to level off in the vicinity of 70% or so. As it turns out, a lot of your friends missed out on the movie the first time around, and after losing a little more than half of its first weekend tally, it’s the first film ever with two nine-figure weekend grosses. That shit cray.
It gets even bigger and better for the film that already has smashed a ton of box office records. The international numbers have been released by Disney: "The Avengers" crossed the »
- Gabe Toro
Ashley Tisdale and Ex-Boyfriend Scott Speer Back On
12 May 2012 2:19 PM, PDT | E! Online - UK | See recent E! Online - UK news »
Just months after calling it quits with boyfriend Scott Speer, Ashley Tisdale and the Step Up Revolution director are giving their relationship another try. A source tells E! News the 26-year-old High School Musical star and Speer have been back together for at least the last few weeks, and it looks like they've picked up right where they left off. We're told the couple spent all last weekend together as sort of their "coming out" to show they had officially reunited. Tisdale's 29-year-old, on-again beau even offered up a sweet tweet recently when ABC entered into a development deal recently with the Blondie Girl productions owner for her detective drama pilot, The »
Ashley Tisdale and Ex-Boyfriend Scott Speer Back On
12 May 2012 2:19 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Just months after calling it quits with boyfriend Scott Speer, Ashley Tisdale and the Step Up Revolution director are giving their relationship another try. A source tells E! News the 26-year-old High School Musical star and Speer have been back together for at least the last few weeks, and it looks like they've picked up right where they left off. We're told the couple spent all last weekend together as sort of their "coming out" to show they had officially reunited. Tisdale's 29-year-old, on-again beau even offered up a sweet tweet recently when ABC entered into a development deal recently with the Blondie Girl productions owner for her detective drama pilot, The »
First Banner + Synopsis for Spring Breakers with James Franco, Selena Gomez & Vanessa Hudgens
11 May 2012 1:30 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Writer-director Harmony Korine (Mister Lonely) is expected to bring us one of the most unique films of the year in the form of Spring Breakers.
Its uniqueness is expected in large part because it has such a diverse cast, led in the female roles by Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine (Harmony’s wife), and in the male role by James Franco.
The colourful first banner for the film has surfaced online, via KinoPoisk, featuring a gun-toting Franco opposite the bikini-clad Benson, Gomez, Hudgens, and Korine. And to add to that, IMDb also have an updated synopsis written by one of the production companies, Muse Productions, revealing a few extra details:
“Brit, Candy, Cotty, and Faith have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring »
- Kenji Lloyd
Cannes 2012: Lionsgate's 'Dirty Dancing' Remake Hopes to Hook Foreign Buyers
10 May 2012 5:37 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Kenny Ortega's high-profile Dirty Dancing remake is headed for Cannes, where it will be shopped for the first time to foreign buyers. Lionsgate International is handling international sales on the film, which Lionsgate opens in the U.S. on July 26, 2013. The cast has yet to be announced. Photos: Cannes Film Festival: Veterans Ready to Return to the Croisette The updated movie will hit theaters 26 years after the first Dirty Dancing opened in August 1987, becoming a runaway blockbuster and catapulting Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze to fame. Ortega (High School Musical) was a choreographer on the original
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- Pamela McClintock
Ashley Tisdale To Develop Digital Series
9 May 2012 5:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
High School Musical star Ashley Tisdale is showing off her entrepreneurial skills by developing several shows for the internet.
The actress and her producing partner Jessica Rhoades are working on a number of scripted and unscripted digital series with her Blondie Girl production company.
Tisdale is tackling three web-based projects - high school series In Bloom, hidden camera dating show Meet Cute and sketch show Pitchslap, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The digital shows are the latest business venture for the aspiring media mogul - she also has a reality TV series in the works entitled Miss Advised. »
Countdown to Cannes 2012: The Paperboy
9 May 2012 4:02 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Following on from his first well-received directorial effort (after the largely unappreciated Shadowboxer) appearing in the festival’s Un Certain Regard secondary competition back in 2009, director Lee Daniels returns to the Croisette with his third film The Paperboy, the story of a journalist who returns to his hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
Here’s the plot according to THR:
The Paperboy focuses on a reporter (McConaughey) and his brother (Efron) who investigate the events surrounding a murder in order to free a man on death row, portrayed by Cusack. Kidman plays woman with a dark side who writes letters to men in prison, and brings the case of Cusack’s inmate to the attention of the brothers.
Certainly sounds intriguing.
There’s no trailer just yet, but there are some definite positive points that make this one stand out for me personally…
Reasons to be »
- Simon Gallagher
ABC Family Buys ‘The Keys’ Detective Drama Project Produced By Ashley Tisdale
8 May 2012 4:38 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Exclusive: ABC Family has entered into a development deal with Ashley Tisdale’s Blondie Girl Prods. for The Keys. The High School Musical star, who co-stars in the Louis C.K./Spike Feresten CBS comedy pilot, and her partner Jessica Rhoades will executive produce the detective drama with RelativityREAL CEO Tom Forman. Written by Jonny Umansky and Zach Hyatt, The Keys follows a young woman unraveling the secrets of an exclusive and mysterious resort off the coast of Florida. Umansky and Hyatt are repped by Apa, manager John Tantillo, and attorney Jeff Frankel. Tisdale is repped by CAA. »
- DOMINIC PATTEN
James Franco Explains Federline-esque 'Spring Breakers' Cornrows
7 May 2012 10:02 PM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'As soon as the woman in Florida put [the cornrows] in, the character was alive,' actor says of his drug-dealer role.
By Fallon Prinzivalli, reporting by Josh Horowitz
Photo: MTV News
Despite the young actresses with Disney roots starring in Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers," the film is far from just another teen rom-com about traipsing on the beach and falling in love with long-haired surfer boys. This movie's stars — Selena Gomez, and Ashley Benson — are seduced by a grungy rapper named Alien, played by "127 Hours" actor James Franco.
When Gomez tweeted a photo from the set, we barely recognized Franco in character. Dressed in a bright Hawaiian shirt and donning tattoos, massive sunglasses and a gold wristwatch, this isn't the scholarly, unkempt actor we're used to spying in set photos. But what stood out the most were the cornrows neatly aligned on the top of his head. When »
Zac Efron Didn't Cash In on High School Musical Success, Transitioned Slowly into Career
7 May 2012 6:04 PM, PDT | National Ledger | See recent National Ledger news »
Zac Efron feels "very lucky" not to have "cashed in" on his 'High School Musical' success. The 24-year-old actor has turned down several roles after shooting to fame in the Disney franchise because he wants to have a long career, rather than make easy choices and keep his teenage fanbase. He said: "There were several avenues I could've gone down after 'High School Musical', but I looked at the long term. "I want to be doing this for a long time, so I wanted to make this transition slowly. It wasn't so much about keeping the fans but about making sure I was able to focus on my craft and really take a step back, work hard, work with great directors and have a graceful transition. "It was slow, but I look back at every director I worked with on these films and they are guys I've learned so much from. »
New Year’s Eve Blu-Ray Review And Giveaway
7 May 2012 8:05 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
New Year’s Eve is the next installment in the converging story holiday-themed line-up, and despite serving as passable entertainment in a niche that scoffs at being taken too seriously, there isn’t a lot of life left in the shtick. The story, and the inclusion of at least two of the tangential arcs, feels forced, put together because we have a few more big names willing to join in, and need something for them to do.
This time around, we find ourselves following the New Year’s Eve festivities in New York City, and what better way could there be than sitting on the shoulder of the person responsible for the making sure the ball drops? Claire (Hilary Swank) is the new VP of whatever organization runs Times Square, and she’s running the show. Naturally, a hiccup leaves the ball stuck on its way up, and she has to scramble. »
- Marc Eastman
Bright Eyes, Long Lashes Reviews: American Reunion & The Lucky One
6 May 2012 2:55 PM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
Leah, aka Bright Eyes Long Lashes, is back again for another double-header review, this time taking a look at American Pie: Reunion, the fourth film in the Pie franchise to feature the original cast; and The Lucky One, yet another Nicolas Sparks adaptation, this time starring High School Musical’s Zac Efron.
Check Out Bright Eyes Long Lashes On Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/BrightEyesLongLashes »
- Phil
The Lucky One – review
5 May 2012 4:03 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Based on a romantic bestseller by Nicholas Sparks, this old-fashioned tearjerker features Zac Efron (star of the High School Musical series and, more interestingly, Me and Orson Welles) as a marine sergeant who finds a photograph of a good-looking American blonde in the rubble after a firefight in Iraq. Believing it to be a talisman that saved his life, he follows a trail that leads to a small Louisiana town and becomes detraumatised through his relationship with the woman portrayed, her cute son, her jealous ex-husband and her dotty mom. There's a thin line between the exploration of grief and its exploitation that this film crosses. By the way, can Taylor Schilling, who plays the heroine, be related to the Fifty Shilling Tailors once found on every British high street?
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- Philip French
The Films Of Richard Linklater: A Retrospective
2 May 2012 9:37 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Given that he's one of the more diverse and prolific filmmakers out there, it's been a disappointingly long four years without a new movie from Richard Linklater ("Me and Orson Welles" premiered at Tiff in 2008). Fortunately, the Austin, Texas-based filmmaker is back with "Bernie," a dark comedy which reunites him with two of his most memorable leads, Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, that has picked up strong reviews and, opening in limited release last Friday, has been performing surprisingly well at the box office.
With "Bernie" expanding wider this weekend (read our review), it seemed like the perfect time to look over Linklater's diverse and eclectic career. He'd already made his mark by founding the Austin Film Society in 1985 (which has gone on to be the center of the industy in the Texas city), but since his debut with an ultra-low-budget student film in 1988, Linklater's tackled everything from romance to »
- Oliver Lyttelton
The Lucky One Review
1 May 2012 3:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
In a lot of ways actually reviewing The Lucky One is a fruitless pursuit. Based on novel by Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook, Dear John, The Last Song et al), it’s another high-concept weepy scientifically designed to manipulate as many tears as possible out the audience.
These films rely on the strength of their elevator pitch; on paper The Lucky One has a decent-ish one. Us Marine Zac Efron finds a discarded photo of a girl whilst on tour in Iraq. As he goes over to pick it up, a bomb goes off and Zac only survives because he made a few steps to the left. He decides the girl in the picture is his guardian angel and vows to find her when he returns to civilian life.
So it’s a hundred minutes of Efron searching America, learning about himself then eventually falling in love with the girl at the end right ?
Well, »
- Will Jones
Will We See 'Cloud Atlas,' 'Only God Forgives' & Terrence Malick's Latest & More Before The End Of 2012?
30 April 2012 9:02 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
We're almost exactly a third of the way through the year, and thanks to the announcement of the Cannes Film Festival line-up a couple weeks ago, we're now a little clearer on the timetable of some of the most anticipated films of the year. We know that "Cosmopolis," "Killing Them Softly," "On The Road," "Mud," "Rust And Bone," "Amour" and "The Paperboy," among others are done, and will be screening in only a few short weeks for critics, and U.S. releases, if not set already, can't be far behind. And the release schedule for the rest of the year is firming up fast, with films like "The Master" and "Seven Psychopaths" getting added to the calendar.
But what of the question marks that still remain? Of the major movies tentatively set for completion this year, but without firm release dates as yet, which will we actually see in theaters »
- Oliver Lyttelton
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