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Jun 16 2010 09:35 AM ET

Robert Pattinson, Emma Roberts on Leno: Are you Team Edward or Team Emma?

Categories: Celebrity Feuds, Late Night, Movies, Robert Pattinson, The Tonight Show, Twilight

I’m not sure what I liked best about Robert Pattinson-Emma Roberts’ sofa banter on last night’s The Tonight Show. Was it when Jay Leno asked them if they’d met before, and the 19-year-old Roberts (who just landed a role in Scream 4) responded without a whit of warmth, “About 10 minutes ago. Yes, it was quite an experience.” Or was it when Leno put Roberts on the spot to see if she was Team Edward or Team Jacob, and she barely hesitated before saying, “I’m sorry, your hair looks wonderful in person, but I’m going to have to say Team Jacob.” Watch the video below, and note the look of utter betrayal on Pattinson’s face at the 27-second mark. I can’t look away. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 16 2010 09:30 AM ET

E3: Sony sets its (3-D) eyes on hardcore gamers

by John Young

Categories: E3, Games, Tech, The Bad Man Scares Me!, Videogames

Image Credit: David McNew/Getty ImagesThe main message Sony conveyed during its two-hour E3 presentation Tuesday afternoon was this: “Hardcore gamers, we’re here for you.” While Microsoft has spent most of its energy (and money) touting its intuitive motion-detection device, Kinect, and Nintendo has continued to position its Wii and the new 3DS as family-friendly systems, Sony assured hardcore gamers (men in their 20s and 30s who crave ultraviolent shooters and prefer their controllers to include 84 buttons) that they hadn’t been forgotten. In fact, Sony brought out Kevin Butler, the company’s fictitious vice president in its TV ads, to issue a gaming manifesto. “Gaming is having a ridiculously huge TV in a tiny one-bedroom apartment,” Butler proclaimed to the audience, which erupted into laughter and applause. “(Gaming is) staying up till 3 a.m. to earn a trophy that isn’t real. And it’s girls who know that the way to a man’s heart is through a melee attack. I love gaming!”

True, Sony spent a significant chunk of time on its own motion controller, the PlayStation Move (out Sept. 19), which is basically a supercharged Wii Remote. But the tech giant knew what most of the assembled audience truly wanted to see, and it delivered on that front with demos and glimpses of READ FULL STORY »

Jun 16 2010 09:00 AM ET

'Hot in Cleveland' a.k.a. 'Yes Betty White really is part of a new sitcom airing in 2010' premieres tonight

by Annie Barrett

Categories: Betty White, Television, The Daily Show

Image Credit: Craig T. MathewEven though Betty White is everywhere, her new TV Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland (premiering tonight at 10 p.m. on TV Land) has been relatively off my radar for a few months. I’d walked by the ad in my local subway stop every morning and until recently just registered it on the outskirts of my very busy mind. Oh, that’s a lovely photo of Daphne Moon, Rose Nylund, Barbara Cooper Romano, and Nina Van Horn, I thought, without worrying my pretty little head too much about what these four TV characters were doing in the same frame. Eventually, as my suspicion grew and grew, I bothered to look it up on our very own site, and presto! There’s a new TV show named Hot in Cleveland.

Betty White plays the wisecracking caretaker of a house leased by one of the three single ladies, so this pretty much has Room and Bored (the show-within-a-show in HBO’s The Comeback) written all over it. EW’s Ken Tucker writes, “You’ve got a 1980s sitcom transplanted to 2012, which I don’t intend as a recommendation. The punchlines about chili fries and tracksuits need to be funnier.” Still, yum. “Must…have…cupcakes. Must…have…quesadillas…”

Will you give Hot in Cleveland a shot tonight? If you need more than Betty White to seal the deal, allow me to remind you of two words/one proper noun. WENDIE MALICK. Hell yeah. (Some of you wondered why a Lunchtime Poll I posted last week, about who you wished the MTV Popcorn Man would have turned out to be, included Wendie Malick as one of the options. This was why! Though if you think about it a little harder than I originally thought about Hot in Cleveland…Wendie Malick should probably be an option in all EW.com polls ever.)

Annie on Twitter: @EWAnnieBarrett

Jun 15 2010 10:37 PM ET

'Bachelorette' producers explain Justin's foot swap

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: Reality TV, Television, The Bachelorette

Thanks to the keen eye of the folks at TV Squad — and the paranoia of seasoned reality TV viewers — Bachelorette fans have spent the day wondering whether Justin, the “entertainment wrestler” who walked to Ali’s mansion on crutches, really had a broken foot. The June 7 episode clearly showed Justin walking on his right foot with his left foot held high in a cast for most of the trek. But for five seconds (at 41:14 in the clip below), he was shown using his left foot, which was suddenly sneaker-clad. What gives? ”Justin definitely had a broken left foot for the duration of the filming of The Bachelorette,“ the show’s producers say in a statement to EW. ”For the geographic clarity of Justin’s journey to find Ali, we thought it best to ‘flop’ a shot. ‘Flopping’ a shot creates a mirrored version of the image. The unintentional consequence was that Justin’s cast in the mirrored version appears to be on his right leg rather than the left.”

Is ‘flopping’ a shot covered in the leeway you give reality TV producers? (If it doesn’t affect the outcome of events, I’m okay with it. Although I wouldn’t necessarily try it when there’s a cast to tip-off viewers.) Or are you a naive total purist?
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Jun 15 2010 06:15 PM ET

Videogame spending will rise this year; Three lessons movies can learn from America's favorite entertainment medium

by Darren Franich

Categories: Movies, Videogames

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the general downturn in American spending on videogames is about to end… in a big way. On the same day that Microsoft announced the arrival of Project Kinect (soon to be a dorm favorite!), PricewaterhouseCoopers predicted that North American gamers will spend 7.2 percent more on video games this year than last year. That news comes right in the midst of a summer movie season that has so far been dangerously light on hits, besides a meh superhero sequel, a meh cartoon fourquel, and pretty fun 1980s remake (thanks, Jaden!) In the interest of helping our old pal, the Cinema, here are three things that Hollywood can learn from the videogame industry about pleasing us fickle thrill-seekers in the audience:

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Jun 15 2010 05:38 PM ET

Dakota Fanning skips 'Eclipse' screening to take a test. Where are her priorities?

by Kerrie Mitchell

Categories: Eclipse, Movies, Sarcasm, Twilight

Image Credit: Sharky/Splash NewsAccess Hollywood got the real dirt from Eclipse co-star Dakota Fanning: Rather than attend a pre-junket screening of the highly anticipated Twilight sequel, Fanning told the show she instead was busy taking the ACT, a college entrance exam. And then she had to go and be charmingly self-deprecating about it all, admitting to guessing on some of the answers. I don’t know what’s up with Fanning, between the test-taking, college-experience-wanting, and the overall healthy future planning. But I find myself continually disoriented by her when I compare her to some of her, um, less studious-seeming peers. When EW’s Adam Markovitz interviewed her last year in the run-up to New Moon, she squeezed in a call to him just before class. At her actual high school. Do young stars even go to high school? I hadn’t realized. Am I the only one who assumes the ever-precocious Fanning will just take over the world one day?

Jun 15 2010 05:31 PM ET

Whitesnake wine: My lonely street of dreams just got boozier

by Kate Ward

Categories: Food and Drink, Music

After budgeting myself this week, I have found an additional $29.95 to spend. Should I buy more food for the week? A new t-shirt? A copy of both Bill & Ted movies to cheer Keanu up?

No, silly. I’m going to buy a bottle of wine sold by a 1980s metal band. Sadly, not Poison. (But if Bret Michaels‘ band does ever release a potent potable, I strongly suggest they find a different name.) It looks like Whitesnake has decided to dabble in the refine and release The Whitesnake Zinfandel 2008, a “bodacious, cheeky little wine, filled to the brim with the spicy essence of sexy, slippery Snakeyness” made to “complement any & all grown-up friskiness & hot tub jollies…”

Based on that description, I’m not totally convinced that this isn’t just corked hot tub water, but I’m willing to give it a try. I’ll let you know how it is after I swig it in my own jacuzzi, surrounded by PopWatch groupies and Brian Krause. Translation: I’ll let you know how it is after I swig it in a karaoke room, surrounded by fellow PopWatchers singing “Here I Go Again.” Translation: I’ll let you know how it is after I swig it in my studio apartment, surrounded by my cat watching me sing “Here I Go Again”…on my own.

Jun 15 2010 04:56 PM ET

Coldplay gives 'Glee' their catalog: Is it the right fit?

by Sandra Gonzalez

Categories: Glee, Music, Television, This Could Be Interesting...

Image Credit: Carin Baer/Fox; Stephan CraneansckiEventually, they all give in. And damn it, you might be next, Bryan Adams.

After initially declining Glee permission to cover their songs, Coldplay is giving the Fox hit access to their catalog, according to reports. You might be happy… or sad. That’s kind of a dumb statement, but I’m leaving it because it reminds me of something Brittany would say. I’m happy, but my joy comes with one question: Is Coldplay the right fit for Glee? My gut says it could definitely work, but (and that’s a big but) it has to be done correctly: READ FULL STORY »

Jun 15 2010 04:37 PM ET

Life after 'The Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette': Any of them deserve it?

by Mandi Bierly

Categories: The Bachelor, The Bachelorette

Image Credit: Kevin Foley/ABCHearing the news that Jake Pavelka will guest star on an episode of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva, Melissa Rycroft will co-host ABC’s Bachelor Pad with Chris Harrison, and Jillian Harris will join the cast of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is enough to make a Bachelor/Bachelorette fan scream. Why do networks think that just because we liked to watch them in a screwed-up dating situation, we want to see them do anything else? Do we really want/need to see people from these shows after the final rose?

I was prepared to answer a flat-out “no,” until Kristen Baldwin — back from maternity leave! — reminded me of “the breakdancer,” Michael Stagliano, cast aside by Harris. Were he to pop up hosting some cable show for men, or competing on Wipeout, it would not piss me off.

Is there any Bachelor/Bachelorette contestant whose resurgence wouldn’t annoy you? Are you more likely to be okay with someone from a “classy” reality show like this one getting another TV gig as opposed to, say, a lady from Rock of Love?

Jun 15 2010 04:19 PM ET

In honor of Cheer Up Keanu Day, here are seven reasons we're grateful for Keanu Reeves

by Keith Staskiewicz

Categories: Keanu Reeves, Web Surfing

Yesterday was Flag Day, the one day of the year dedicated to Americans celebrating their national colors, but today, June 15, is actually a much more important holiday: Cheer Up Keanu Day. After a paparazzi image of a forlorn-looking Keanu Reeves sitting on a bench and eating lunch made its circuit through the magically arbitrary world of Internet Meme-land, someone started up a Facebook event called “Cheer Up Keanu Day,” urging fans of the actor to send him “letters, emails, gifts, and any other niceties and kind words” to let him know just how much he means to them. As of this post, there are over 14,000 confirmed participants. In the succinct words of Keanu, “Whoa.” READ FULL STORY »