Archive for July, 2009
No ‘Happy Feet’ for good-looking actor
by erikb on Jul.17, 2009, under Blind Item
Nobody wants to be in the same dressing room when this good-looking actor is inside. Because he has the habit of taking off his shoes to ventilate his feet.
That’s okay, if only the good-looking actor’s feet smell heavenly.
People working with him could readily tell if his inside the dressing room.
They could smell the stink of the good-looking actor’s feet from miles away.
To put it more bluntly, as one staff described the smell, ‘Parang may patay na daga sa dressing room!’
Maybe the good-looking actor should also improve his hygiene.
Acting-wise, he is already a very good actor. Bar none. Nagmana kasi siya sa parents with his acting skills, that’s all we can say.
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Kristen Stewart, from Twilight to Adventureland
by erikb on Jul.17, 2009, under Movies
When Kristen Stewart was making the teen romantic comedy “Adventureland,” she was just another young actress whom most people had never heard of. Then “Twilight” came out and changed all of that. That movie grossed more than $370 million worldwide and propelled her to stardom.
A definite advantage of fame is to be able to call attention to “Adventureland,” a critically acclaimed independent film that screened at Sundance. “Well, that part is good,” Stewart says. “I want as many people as possible to see this movie.”
To be shown exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas (Glorietta 4 & Greenbelt 3) starting July 22, the sweet coming-of-age tale is about a college graduate whose parents are forced to renege on their promise to send him to Europe because they’re broke. Teen actor Jesse Eisenberg stars as James Brennan, the young man who instead finds work at a decrepit amusement park called Adventureland. Stewart plays fellow employee Em Lewin, a confused rich girl who is far more sexually advanced than James is.
Although Stewart is actually younger than the character she plays, she responded viscerally to the character, immediately latching onto Em’s volatile mix of sexual maturity and emotional naiveté. For even as Em is fishing for lost quarters in the arcade, she’s also searching for what her confused heart really wants. “I certainly don’t have the same life experiences Em has, but I felt I could relate to something in her,” says Stewart. “And knowing that she was based on real people [director] Greg Mottola has known, I felt a big responsibility to get everything about who she is and her affect on James across.”
As for what a daring, angry, experienced girl like Em sees in a shy, anxious, virginal guy like James, she observes: “There’s something about James that is wonderfully innocent – and Em is so past that, I think his attitude is just disarming to her. James comes along right at a time when she’s involved in something very complicated that’s filled with all kinds of feelings of guilt – and what happens between them is very sweet and simple and real, which is completely new to her.”
Mottola was also excited to see Stewart have the chance to reveal some of her comic chops. “I’ve always thought she had a very mysterious quality and she exudes intelligence, but she also can be very, very funny,” he notes. “She’s one of those actresses who I find deeply fascinating to watch on the screen.”
Eisenberg says the chemistry with Stewart was completely organic: “She’s so natural and realistic. It’s shocking to see someone so young come across with so much maturity.”
In turn, Stewart says of Eisenberg: “He’s completely earnest so there was never any pretension and it never felt like we were working at it. He’s as straight up and sincere as James, so I thought he was perfect in the role.”
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Finding EMO
by admin on Jul.09, 2009, under Music
Your girlfriend broke up with you for another dude. Your parents love your sister more than they love you. You’re the biggest loser in school. You’re broke.
Whatever the reason is, you’re going to find comfort in Finding Emo, a compilation of 18 highly intense tracks from guys who know just how you feel. MCA Music, Inc. and The Home of New Rock NU 107 gather the best bands of the movement to bring you an album filled with highly emotive, uninhibited, in-your-face rock anthems.
Finding Emo reads like a who’s who of emo’s flag-bearers. The latest idols of the genre like Tokio Hotel, Fall Out Boy, and The All-American Rejects join elder statesmen American Football, Finch, Thrice, Thursday, and Mae. Hard-to-find songs also make their way to the album, like the seldom-heard “Stolen” by Dashboard Confessional featuring Eva from the band Juli and The Rocking Horse Winner’s “When Songbirds Sing”. Completing the collection are Anberlin, The Starting Line, New Found Glory, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead, Something Corporate, and Brand New.
All these guys offer honest odes of love, loss, disillusionment, and resentment. You’ll feel like you found a new friend.
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An adoption gone terrifyingly wrong in ‘Orphan’
by admin on Jul.06, 2009, under Movies
There’s something wrong with an orphaned girl named Esther. You’ll never guess her secret.
Warner Bros. presents seasoned actors Vera Farmiga (The Departed), Peter Sarsgaard (Jarhead) and child star Isabelle Fuhrman in the nail-biting suspense-thriller Orphan. Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax) directs from a screenplay by David Lesley Johnson.
In the film, the tragic loss of their unborn child has devastated Kate (Farmiga) and John (Sarsgaard), taking a toll on both their marriage and Kate’s fragile psyche as she is plagued by nightmares and haunted by demons from her past. Struggling to regain some semblance of normalcy in their lives, the couple decides to adopt another child.
At the local orphanage, both John and Kate find themselves strangely drawn to a young girl named Esther (Fuhrman). Almost as soon as they welcome Esther into their home, however, an alarming series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there’s something wrong with Esther–this seemingly angelic little girl is not what she appears to be.
Concerned for the safety of her family, Kate tries to get John and others to see past Esther’s sweet facade. But her warnings go unheeded until it may be too late…for everyone.
Opening soon across the Philippines, Orphan is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Entertainment Company.
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“Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince” to be shown in Imax 3D
by admin on Jul.06, 2009, under Movies
Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” will be shown in glorious IMAX-3D format at the IMAX Theater of SM Mall of Asia and Digital IMAX Theater at SM North EDSA which has chosen the movie as its opening film.
“Half-Blood Prince” has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through proprietary IMAX DMR® technology. Using IMAX’s revolutionary live action 2D to 3D conversion technology, the movie’s opening sequence has been transformed into IMAX 3D.
With crystal clear images, laser-aligned digital sound and maximized field of view, IMAX provides the world’s most immersive movie experience.
Emboldened by the return of Lord Voldemort, the Death Eaters are wreaking havoc in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was, in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) suspects that new dangers may lie within the castle, but Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. He needs Harry to help him uncover a vital key to unlocking Voldemort’s defenses—critical information known only to Hogwarts’ former Potions Professor, Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent). With that in mind, Dumbledore manipulates his old colleague into returning to his previous post with promises of more money, a bigger office…and the chance to teach the famous Harry Potter.
Meanwhile, the students are under attack from a very different adversary as teenage hormones rage across the ramparts. Harry’s long friendship with Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright) is growing into something deeper, but standing in the way is Ginny’s boyfriend, Dean Thomas, not to mention her big brother Ron (Rupert Grint). But Ron’s got romantic entanglements of his own to worry about, with Lavender Brown (Jessie Cave) lavishing her affections on him, leaving Hermione (Emma Watson) simmering with jealousy yet determined not to show her feelings. And then a box of love potion-laced chocolates ends up in the wrong hands and changes everything.
As romance blossoms, one student remains aloof with far more important matters on his mind. He is determined to make his mark, albeit a dark one. Love is in the air, but tragedy lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
Opening across the Philippines on July 16, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Entertainment Company.
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Music is Miley’s second language in ‘Hannah Montana The Movie’
by admin on Jul.04, 2009, under Movies
While the Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana” has always had music, Walt Disney Pictures’ film transformation “Hannah Montana The Movie” takes the music to another level. As the character Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) travel from Los Angeles to Tennessee, the audience discovers how deeply the family’s lives are rooted in music.
“Director Peter Chelsom describes the Stewart family as a bilingual family whose second language is music, and that’s very true in this movie,” says producer Alfred Gough.
Chelsom says the film’s numerous songs are tightly woven into the fabric of the story and the character, which is why he believes the film will feel like a musical without being one. “We continuously dance very close to the convention of a musical but are more integrated. Songs are going to sit within the film, not apart from the film. At times, you won’t notice the music is happening; it’ll just move the story along.”
An example is the song “The Climb.” After troubles with her bestfriend Lilly, her brother, her father, her grandmother and love interest Travis, Miley begins to realize how much her secret impacts the relationships with the people whom she loves. Confused and contrite, she ends up expressing her emotions by writing a song, “The Climb.”
“The song is her journey, the lessons she’s learned in the movie,” says Gough. “It’s an epic song, written by a Nashville songwriter named Jesse Alexander with her partner, John Mabe. It’s a power ballad that encapsulates Miley’s journey and the message of the film.”
In total, Miley/Hannah performs 12 new songs in the film, including “Let’s Get Crazy,” “Butterfly Fly Away” and “You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home.”
The innovative mix of music in the film includes pop, rock, country, hip hop and even a familiar Hawaiian-themed melody. “We realized this was an opportunity to move forward with the music, to update it and make it more sophisticated, to move with Miley’s age,” says Chelsom. “I’ve never had a better musical experience on any film.”
Hit singer-songwriter Taylor Swift became involved when the filmmakers approached her about using her music in the film. Swift not only said the filmmakers could use her music, but she’d be happy to perform a song in the movie.
“When I got an email from Disney saying they wanted a song that was perfect to fall in love to and sort of a country waltz, I sent them ‘Crazier’ and they loved it,” Swift says.
Swift also co-wrote the film’s closing musical number, “You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home.”
Opening across the Philippines on July 8, “Hannah Montana The Movie” is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International.
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