Archive: July 2011 (231-240 of 289)

Jul 7 2011 05:49 PM ET

Alicia Silverstone in Amy Heckerling's upcoming comedy 'Vamps': Are you totally buggin' for her to have a big screen comeback, too?

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This could be it, PopWatchers, the thing that finally gets me into the vampire genre. I couldn’t be wooed by the Twilight saga, nor was I willing to take a bite out True Blood. But Vamps, the new comedy from director Amy Heckerling, about two blood-sucking gal pals (un)living it up in New York City, all while dealing with the drama of falling in love with a mortal, could be the one to do the trick. Why?

As if you even needed to ask: Alicia Silverstone is in it!  READ FULL STORY »

Jul 7 2011 05:09 PM ET

Ashton Kutcher, William Shatner, and Kim Kardashian preparing Los Angeles for 'Carmageddon'

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From the evening of July 15 to the morning hours of July 17, ten crucial miles of the 405 Freeway, also known as the primary lifeline of the west side of Los Angeles, will shut down for construction. Aptly nicknamed “Carmageddon,” what should be a peaceful July weekend has already filled automobile-dependent Angelenos with major earthquake levels of anxiety.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa warned concerned citizens of the gravity of the situation, which will essentially paralyze the city. “If you think the 405 is gridlocked during the week, you haven’t seen anything yet,” he told the New York Times. “My message is to stay home. Or go on vacation. Walk. Go on a bike. But do not get in your car and go anywhere near the West Side. It’s going to be a mess.” Villaraigosa’s message is an important one, but alerting the citizens to an event of this magnitude is no task for local politicians or law enforcement. Instead, the Los Angeles Police Department has turned to the city’s most trusted source of information: celebrities. On their Twitter accounts.  READ FULL STORY »

Jul 7 2011 02:28 PM ET

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2' already sells out 2,000 screenings. Got your ticket?

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Willy Wonka’s got nothing on these golden tickets.

With just a week to go until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2, opens in theaters (yes, it’s only Thursday, but for the fans lining up for those midnight showings, every minute counts), tickets for screenings are already becoming increasingly hard to collect. In fact, at this point, you might have better luck snagging a seat at Book of Mormon than at your local multiplex for HP‘s last stand next weekend.

A little under a month ago, EW learned from online ticket seller Fandango that advance purchases for Part 2 were making up for nearly 52 percent of the company’s sales. By mid-June, the site was already experiencing “brisk ticket sales” for the final chapter of the beloved saga and the numbers have only continued to increase since. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 7 2011 12:35 PM ET

Care Bears to return as computer-generated autobots in animated TV series

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Bad news for nostalgic 20- and 30-somethings whose childhoods were marked by love and adoration for a group of fuzzy, chubby-faced bears with tummy symbols: The bears are coming back to TV in 2012… as computer-generated images, according to reports. Sigh.

Normally, I’d applaud the efforts of studios to bring back beloved franchises in order to expose them to a new generation. But why mess with their look? READ FULL STORY »

Jul 7 2011 11:00 AM ET

The final 'Harry Potter' movie premiere in London: Watch video replay on EW.com!

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Today, after 10 years, eight movies, and $6.4 billion in global box office, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint are walking down their final red carpet of the final London premiere of the final Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. Just contemplate that for a second. Imagine your junior high, high school, and college graduations, smashed together into one massive event meant to convey the end of a decade of your life’s work, an event that also has meaning for people around the world. That is my best guess for what it will be like for these three young adults today.

And thanks to the wizardry of the interwebs, EW.com is live streaming the event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET, during which Radcliffe, Watson, and Grint will be joined by Potter author J.K. Rowling, producers David Heyman and David Barron, director David Yates, and countless members of arguably the greatest ensemble of British acting talent ever assembled.  CLICK HERE to watch the red carpet stream — the magic has already begun! (UPDATE: If you missed it live, you didn’t miss out: the video replay of the event is scheduled to be re-streamed in its entirety for 24 hours.)

Jul 7 2011 10:55 AM ET

Follow Harry Potter through the pages of the 'Wall Street Journal'

No one will ever confuse the staid Wall Street Journal with the work of Andy Warhol, but the newspaper’s hedcuts — those iconic ink illustrations made entirely of dots — of Daniel Radcliffe evoke the nostalgia of the artist’s famous Marilyn Monroe painting. The daily collected six of artist Randy Glass’ “Harry Potters” from its archives, and sewn together, they capture not only Radcliffe’s evolution from cherub-faced innocence to furrowed determination, but their own sublime aesthetic. (The only thing that hasn’t changed are his glasses.) Each drawing finely embodies the tone of its respective film, and the seventh and final portrait (right) rightfully stands alone. It’s the darkest of the set, the only one in which Radcliffe is depicted not looking at the “camera.” Well done, WSJ. Take a look at the Harry collage: READ FULL STORY »

Jul 7 2011 08:56 AM ET

Melanie LaPatin on 'So You Think You Can Dance': Great dance is like... ice cream?

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Hello, everybody! To start this week’s blog, I thought I’d try answering a few comments from last week, since you seem to like that, and frankly, so do I. (And yes, of COURSE, I read your comments! Sometimes twice! Are you kidding? I’m human, and a slightly neurotic human at that!)

To Scarlet. Yes, starting this week, I will do my very best to remember to mention what each dance is when I’m writing about the dancers. Sorry about that. This stuff is so hardwired into my brain, I forget sometimes that not everyone speaks salsa as a second language. ;)

To GP, and to everybody else who’s been befuddled by my (and the judges’) admiration for Ryan. I hear you, and I understand. The best way for me to try and explain it is: You know how chocolate ice cream is good, and so is vanilla, but some people will like one and not really be all that jazzed about the other (and maybe even really DISLIKE the other)? Maybe, in a way, dancers are like that. Two dancers can both be very good, but for some intangible reason we may never understand, one moves us and the other doesn’t. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 7 2011 07:00 AM ET

'Big Brother': The Zingbot 3000 slams Evel Dick and Brenchel. Ziiiiiiiing!

Say what you will about Memorial Day and Fourth of July, but summer doesn’t truly start for us until Julie Chen is welcoming a new collection of idiots contestants to the Big Brother house. And those idiots contestants will be welcomed tonight! Of course, there’s always a twist, and season 13′s shake-up is that some “dynamic duos” from past seasons will also be returning to play again. To break it all down, we scored an exclusive interview with a true inside source: the Zingbot 3000! While my previous interview with the Zingbot didn’t go so well, I was promised by his “handlers” that the sassy little scamp would be on his best behavior this time, so in the interest of letting bygones be bygones, I decided to give him another chance. What’s Zingy’s take on the newbies? What does he think about some of the possible returning players? And why is the wisecracking robot locked in a feud with a big name movie director? The Zingbot shares all (some would say a little too much) in our exclusive via satellite sit down interview. Click on the video below to see for yourself. And for more non-reality star robot related news and views, follow me on Twitter @EWDaltonRoss. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 6 2011 07:30 PM ET

'So You Think You Can Dance': Discuss the Top 14 performances!

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This week’s celebrity guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance is “actress”/”dancer” Carmen Electra, and rarely have quotation marks been required to do more work. Fortunately, the cosmos has strived for balance, for this week’s dancing expert guest judge is standout choreographer and SYTYCD season 2 runner-up Travis Wall, making his debut at the SYTYCD judges’ table. Ironically, when recently asked by AfterElton.com whether he’d be a guest judge on the show, Wall demurred. “I don’t think I could ever be a judge,” he said. “I think I’m way too involved in the dance world and the dance convention world and up-and-coming dancers. I know everybody, so I would be so biased judging to, like, put particular people through, because I know all of those kids. Like Season 8: out of the top 20 I know like 14 of them on a personal level, like I’ve choreographed for them before. So… I don’t know… I feel like I’m way too involved to judge.” Cut to last night, when Wall tweeted: “HOLY BALLS!! I just got a call to be the GUEST JUDGE on SYTYCD THIS WEEK! I just s— my pants!!!”

Chat here about how Wall fared when faced with fairly critiquing season 8′s top 14 — and how many meaningful contributions Electra brings to the conversation – then come back to EW.com tomorrow morning for my full So You Think You Can Dance top 14 recap!

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Read more:
EW’s SYTYCD recaps
‘SYTYCD’: Mary Murphy on last week’s kissing mayhem
‘SYTYCD’: 25 Best Performances Ever

Jul 6 2011 07:00 PM ET

This man's epic cover of the 'Game of Thrones' theme gave me chills. Will it do the same to you?

I’m a sucker for instrumental song covers (strings, especially) and have been known to tear up when I am particularly moved. This has been achieved by every song ever covered by the Vitamin String Quartet — and this turning-viral clip of a man performing a violin cover of the Game of Thrones theme song.

I Michael Scott-ed the 2-minute long clip for the better part of a half hour before I realized I should probably share with you — in part so that  someone will hopefully join me in Geekville and confess they got chill bumps. Anyone? Bueller?  READ FULL STORY »

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