Archive: June 2010 (171-180 of 584)

Jun 23 2010 09:56 AM ET

Daniel Radcliffe to star in 'All Quiet on the Western Front'

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Categories: Harry Potter, Movie Casting, Movies

tv_my-boy-jackImage Credit: Patrick RedmondDaniel Radcliffe isn’t wasting any time leaping into the next stage of his career. According to Variety, the 20-year-old, who recently wrapped the eighth and final Harry Potter film, has agreed to star in a remake of the anti-war classic, All Quiet on the Western Front. The original 1930 film, based on the World War I novel by German veteran Erich Maria Remarque, became the first non-musical “talkie” to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Filming on the remake, produced and written by Ian Stokell and Lesley Paterson, won’t begin until 2012, after Radcliffe completes his Broadway run of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Radcliffe played a World War I soldier  in PBS’ 2008 movie, My Boy Jack (pictured), but are Harry Potter fans ready to make the leap with Radcliffe from Quidditch to the deadly trenches of the Great War? And since the project still hasn’t announced a director, is there someone from the Potter universe who might be ideal to lead Radcliffe into battle? Mike Newell? David Yates?

More ‘Harry Potter’:
Harry Potter done shooting: Where do we go from here?
Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Forbidden Journey reviews are in
‘Harry Potter’ vs. ‘Twilight’: Can’t we all just get along?

Jun 23 2010 04:43 AM ET

'Deadliest Catch' recap: The beginning of the end

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Categories: About Last Night, Deadliest Catch, Reality TV, Television, TV Recap, Why Am I Crying?

deadliest_catchImage Credit: Rick Gershon/Reportage by Getty ImagesWe’ve known this episode was coming ever since we found out that Capt. Phil Harris insisted the cameras keep filming after he suffered a stroke because they needed “a great finish to the story,” and it’s made season 6 — the show’s most-watched — exquisitely excruciating. You couldn’t have scripted a more moving start to Phil’s final days if you tried.

We started with a replay of the confrontation Phil and son Jake had in last week’s episode after the skipper caught his deckhand stealing some of his prescription pain medicine. Phil said he never wanted to see Jake again after they got home, but once Jake admitted he was an addict, Phil softened. He told Jake it had to end, and Jake agreed because it’s ruining his life. “Then go to treatment. That’s the only f—in’ thing that’s gonna save your ass,” Phil said. He asked Jake what he was going to do when he got home, and Jake said go to meetings. “I’ll go with ya,” Phil said. “I understand.” I’m guessing I wasn’t the only one who started sobbing at that point? READ FULL STORY »

Jun 23 2010 01:05 AM ET

'Hell's Kitchen' recap: The hen is a pigeon, the chicken is a duck

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Categories: TV Recap

Let’s assume for a second that Scott and Autumn are literally the same person, or at least time-travel clones from space. Their co-existence on Hell’s Kitchen this season is the result of a wormhole created by Mad Doctor Ramsay in his Laboratory of Angry Science. Both Scott and Autumn tried to take charge of their teams. They both failed miserably. They both were given a chance at redemption. A new team. A new beginning. And here, their paths divided. One joined a team of champions and became a valuable teammate. The other joined a team of losers and quickly became the most hated citizen of Hatetown, USA.

What went wrong? After close analysis of the two contestant’s movements, I’ve come up with three key morals students can learn from the Tale of Scott and Autumn:

1. Shut up.

2. Shut up.

3. Seriously, Scott, shut up.

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Jun 22 2010 06:52 PM ET

Disney's 'Prom': The next 'High School Musical?' More like the next 'Sixteen Candles'

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Categories: Movies

In High School Musical 3, audiences were told, “It’s gonna be a night! To remember! We’ll never, ever, ever forget!” Well, it appears that Troy and Gabriella were not merely singing about their own school dance, but, in fact, prophetically telling the world about Disney’s new project, Prom, which revealed its cast yesterday. Featuring a group of young “I know I’ve seen that face before” actors like Friday Night Lights‘ Aimee Teegarden and Gossip Girl‘s Yin Chang (full cast here), Prom will tell the story of a group of teenagers getting ready for the big night. Many have been quick to compare the project, which starts shooting next month, to the popular High School Musical franchise, but a rep for the studio says that’s not really the case.

“It’s not a musical, nor is it like High School Musical,” he told EW. For starters, Prom will not be a Disney Channel release. It’s set to hit theaters in Spring 2011– perhaps around the time of senior proms? Second, if HSM was a throwback to 1950s beach musicals, Prom is more of an homage to 1980s teen comedies. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 22 2010 06:31 PM ET

New 'Transformers 3' photos and huge plot reveal: Shia LaBeouf will run away from large robots

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Categories: Movies, Sarcasm, Transformers

Shia-Rosie-TransformersImage Credit: On Location NewsTaking an acute turn away from the quietly powerful chamber-drama plots of the previous two films, early photos indicate that much of Transformers 3: The Rise of the Vengeful Fallen’s Revenge will be about Shia LaBeouf cowering in the face of giant CGI robots making things go boom.

Based on successful threequels in the past, I was hoping that Transformers 3 would either be set in the Wild West or star Sean Connery in a bucket hat, but I guess it’s just not to be. New images from the set of the latest robots-in-disguise film show Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson and Megan Fox 2.0 (also known as Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) doing what actors do best in a Michael Bay film: Staying out of the way. The scene they are shooting is supposedly set in an office building that’s in the process of being tipped over by a big, bad Decepticon, and from the confused, perhaps gastrointestinally distressed, looks on the faces of LaBeouf and Huntington-Whiteley, it seems evident that those two will have all the romantic chemistry LaBeouf and Fox had.

What do you think PopWatchers? Do these photos make you excited for two-and-a-half more hours of Michael Bay playing with toys? Anyone hope Tyrese will finally get something other than a reaction shot and a “They’re coming this way!” in this one? Anyone want to see some actual pictures of Transformers from this Transformers movie?

Jun 22 2010 06:10 PM ET

'Deadliest Catch': Bracing for tonight's episode

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Categories: Deadliest Catch, Television, Why Am I Crying?

phil-harris-deadliest-catchImage Credit: Blair Bunting/Getty ImagesI woke up this morning and had a hard time getting out of bed. I couldn’t figure out why I wanted the clock to stop where it was until I remembered that it was Tuesday, and at 9 p.m. tonight, Discovery will begin airing Capt. Phil Harris’ final days on Deadliest Catch. I just made the mistake of searching for preview clips of the episode on YouTube. I thought I was easing into it when I watched the one titled “Jake’s disturbing call” first, but really, knowing that on top of Capt. Phil’s stroke we’ll be seeing Northwestern deckhand Jake Anderson struggling to hear an update about his missing father on a phone line that keeps cutting out (“Mom?… Mom?”) literally had me pounding my desk and shouting, “This is too much.” Then I watched the clip “Rescue Mission,” which shows Capt. Phil’s crew trying to get him off the docked Cornelia Marie to an ambulance. I don’t know if there’s a lonelier-looking image than an injured man strapped into a stretcher being lifted by a crane (or, as with the heart attack victim rescued at sea in last week’s episode, a Coast Guard helicopter).

Watch the clips below. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 22 2010 05:16 PM ET

Jennifer Love Hewitt plays a hooker. It's not as fun as it sounds.

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Categories: Sexytimes, Television

The preview for The Client List, a Lifetime movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as a woman who turns tricks at the Kind Touch Health Spa and Cybill Shepherd as her mother, isn’t nearly as kitschy as we’d hoped. Turns out, it’s inspired by a true story, and her character prostitutes herself, at least initially, to save her family’s home from foreclosure. Wah waaah. Then, it looks like she gets a little greedy, which could be fun if it’s at least a third of the film. When she’s busted, she has to decide whether or not to turn on her high-profile clients. (The feminist answer is: do it?) Watch the preview below. If Amanda Bynes hadn’t retired from acting, she could have starred in a sequel. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 22 2010 04:43 PM ET

Jimmy Fallon's Robert Pattinson is bothered again, this time about the World Cup

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Categories: About Last Night, Bitchery, British Things, Eclipse, Jimmy Fallon, Late Night, Movies, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner Bicep Watch, Television, Viral Video!!!

botheredJimmy Kimmel Live! may have the stars — thanks to a Twilight: Eclipse special airing tomorrow night — but Jimmy Fallon has the laughs with his hilarious series of  “Bothered” shorts, in which he dresses up like Robert Pattinson’s Edward — complete with blue button-down, ghost-like makeup and a perch high-ish in the treetops.

This time around, Fallon’s Pattinson expresses his Anglo-infused frustration with the World Cup. Besides FIFA not inviting every country on the planet Earth to the game, his Pattison is not happy with the World Cup trophy, which he thinks looks like, ahem, male genitalia.

He even goes on to change the famous “Ole Ole” chant using his favorite word. Check out the video after the jump to find out which word and see what else bothers him about the soccer event:

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Jun 22 2010 03:54 PM ET

Tonight's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' will be brought to you via webcam. Way to go, power outage!

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Categories: Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night, Ooops!, Shenanigans!, Television, Things That Are Awesome!

A power outage shut down the Jimmy Kimmel Live control room during last night’s taping, so Jimmy ended up recording the whole of tonight’s show (ABC, 12:05 a.m. ET) on his laptop. His laptop!!! (Good thing this insanity didn’t affect Kimmel’s pre-taped Twilight special, which airs tomorrow night.) We’ll still get the television premiere of the Green Hornet trailer (presumably not through the eyes of Jimmy’s webcam) and interviews from Hornet star Seth Rogen and Wipeout‘s John Henson. Musical guest Dierks Bentley made the most of the situation by switching to an acoustic performance from his new album Up On The Ridge (pictured).

I can’t wait — it’ll be just like watching YouTube! Will you tune in for what ABC calls “this unintentionally special episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live“?

Read more: Kimmel’s ‘Twilight’ special contains this…Situation

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Jun 22 2010 03:40 PM ET

'Twilight Saga: Eclipse': On the scene for the premiere campout

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Categories: Movies

It was four days away from the L.A. premiere of Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and things at the pre-Twilight campground in front of the Nokia Theater were pretty calm. Twilight fans — boys and girls young and old — had been camped out since 6 a.m. on Monday, but I would hardly call them an excitable bunch.

Unless a preview for the film came on the big screen overlooking the plaza. Or a preview for the next installment of The Chronicles of Narnia, which was briefly mistaken for a preview for Twilight. Or someone mentioned Twilight. Or Edward v. Jacob. Okay, everyone was pretty excitable. READ FULL STORY »

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