If the big box office is any indication, a lot of you have already seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the franchise reboot/prequel that explains how monkeys first began to take over the world. I had low expectations for the film, but I found it surprisingly engaging — I was impressed that the filmmakers actually got me to care about Caesar, the CG-created chimpanzee at the center of the story. More surprising, though, was the complex moral conundrum I was left processing for hours after seeing the film. Was it okay that I was rooting for the primates? (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD.) READ FULL STORY »
Archive: August 2011 (211-220 of 295)
Aug 8
2011
02:57 PM ET
Kate Gosselin: 'I'm definitely ready to start dating.'
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When future generations try to pinpoint the specific moment when the whole notion of “celebrity” entered an eerie post-modern period — a period in which people who were only famous for being famous managed to consistently become steadily more famous by consistently remaking themselves in their own famous image — they will probably look the summer of 2009, when Jon and Kate Gosselin suddenly transformed from a lovably harried pair of reality-show parents into a demonically everpresent pair of multimedia personalities, their messy divorce playing out in tabloids, on the internet, and on their own TV show. While Jon quickly opted to avoid the spotlight, a year of infamy followed for Kate, culminating in a performance of “Paparazzi” on Dancing With the Stars that would make Marshall McLuhan‘s head explode. But anyhow, the important thing is that, as Kate told Today this morning, she’s ready to start dating again, which is certainly good news for everyone, although representatives for the male race did not respond to EW’s calls for comment.
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Aug 8
2011
01:45 PM ET
Yanks fan Alec Baldwin shames Red Sox loyalist John Krasinski in latest New Era ad. But who's having the last laugh?
It was a stinging loss for New York Yankees fans last night as they watched their team lose a tense pitcher’s duel to their bitter rivals, the Boston Red Sox, in extra innings. It was bad enough that the game lasted well over four hours, but that they coughed up their narrow 2-1 lead with ace closer Mariano Rivera on the mound was enough to ruin the start of the week for any of the Bronx Bombers faithful.
Thankfully, there’s another one of those brilliant New Era ads, which hilariously pit Alec Baldwin (Yanks fan) and John Krasinski (Sox fan) against each other to cheer us up! In the latest spot, Krasinski watches in complete horror as Baldwin has put a photoshopped (or is it?!) picture of him in skimpy Yankees undergarments at the JumboTron at Yankee Stadium. If the sights and sounds (“Oh! No!”) of an upset Krasinski (sorry, Krapalooski) watching this all unfold on national television while a giddy Baldwin laughs on the other end of the phone isn’t enough to remedy last night’s wounds, nothing (well, besides re-claiming first place) will.
Watch the full clip below and decide who is really having the last laugh in the Baldwin/Krasinski/Yankees/Red Sox rivalry: READ FULL STORY »
Aug 8
2011
01:10 PM ET
Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester won't appear in 'Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie'
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Oh, Sue Sylvester, where art thou?
Fresh off the heels of the news from Jane Lynch that she will be downplaying the great tracksuit-ed one during her Emmys-hosting gig next month, Ryan Murphy announced he’s on Team Schuester that the actress and her already-iconic character won’t appear in the upcoming Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie, despite being featured rather prominently in the ads.
According to USA Today, Murphy confirmed during a press conference for the concert flick over the weekend that Lynch, who was filmed during the tour and appeared at live shows via satellite, was left on the cutting room floor for the theatrical version. But she’s not completely out of the picture, Murphy explained. “We’re doing another version in a couple of weeks on DVD. Jane will be on that. We’ll do it that way.” (EW reached out Murphy’s reps, who did not respond immediately.) READ FULL STORY »
Aug 8
2011
12:39 PM ET
EW Rage Box: Don't make everything widescreen just because you have a nice widescreen TV, you uncultured pagan oafs
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We should be living in a movie-watching golden era. High-definition Blu-ray DVDs, ever-more-precise methods for digitally cleaning up faded old movie prints, the promise that genuine HD video streaming is just a few turns of the scientific-advancement wonder wheel away… it all sounds very utopian. But the truth is quite the opposite. In fact, I have begun to suspect that humanity is slowly devolving into a post-apocalyptic landscape where our doltish descendants will simply be too dimwitted to understand the wealth of knowledge accumulated over the last few millennia of human history. Because, my friends, even after all this time, I still know far, far, far too many people — some of them close friends, some of them beloved members of my immediate family — who haven’t learned the first fricking rule of owning a widescreen television: Not everything was meant to be viewed in widescreen. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 8
2011
12:18 PM ET
Teen Choice Awards 2011: Justin Bieber, Joe Jonas, and more share their fave teen comedies
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The stars were out in full force for last night’s Teen Choice Awards 2011. From Gossip Girl to The Vampire Diaries, Twilight to Fright Night, everyone mixed and mingled. While Taylor Lautner and Chord Overstreet hung out mano a mano, Cameron Diaz and Blake Lively clicked pics of each other on their cell phones. So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley chatted up proud papa David Beckham when he wasn’t taking snapshots of his boys with their favorite performers.
On the blue carpet, EW correspondent Carrie Borzillo asked the A-listers what their favorite all-time teen comedy. Justin Bieber and Ian Somerhalder hugged it out over their mutual love of Sixteen Candles. See what the rest of the stars, including Joe Jonas, Twilight‘s Ashley Greene, and more, had to say after the jump. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 8
2011
10:00 AM ET
Summer Movie Body Count: 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' kills adorable apes, terrible humans
Image Credit: WETA Week 14 of EW’s 2011 Summer Movie Body Count continues with 
Fan of the 1968 original and its sequels might be a little confused by the setting of the new film. No maniacs have blown Earth up, so there’s no one to damn to hell yet. Things are actually looking pretty good for the homo sapiens: present-dayish San Francisco looks like a place Mark Zuckerberg would recognize, and the chimps are in laboratory cages, guinea pigs for James Franco’s tests to cure Alzheimer’s. [Note: The actor James Franco is NOT actually working to cure Alzheimer’s at this time. I know, I had to check, too.] READ FULL STORY »
Aug 8
2011
09:02 AM ET
'The Wonder Years': Singing out of tune rarely sounded so good
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You may have noticed that we here at PopWatch Central have spent the summer on a bit of a nostalgia kick — and who can blame us, what with 1980s cartoon series becoming box office sensations and the new 1990s block on TeenNick burning up ratings charts and Twitter feeds. But one show stands equal to none when it comes to detonating a nostalgia bomb, and that, my friends, is The Wonder Years.
And that is because this Emmy-winning, groundbreaking dramedy — a chronicle of the junior high and high school years of suburban everykid Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) from 1968 to 1973 — is a double-dutch nostalgia bomb. It hits the kids (like me) for whom the show proved our first introduction into the wily wondrous years of adolescence, and the parents of those kids for whom the show is a direct portrait of their own adolescence. READ FULL STORY »
Aug 8
2011
12:09 AM ET
Teen Choice Awards: 'Harry Potter' tops 'Twilight' in contest that makes non-teens feel old and cranky
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Dracula must be spinning in his grave.
The Teen Choice Awards create a “choice vampire” category, and the winner is Robert Pattinson’s Edward Cullen for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse? He beat Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, and Paul Wesley from The Vampire Diaries (which won five other awards), and Twilight co-star Nikki Reed — okay, fine whatever. But, but … he also bested Alexander Skarsgard’s Eric Northman from True Blood?
Nice going, teens.
Okay, deep breath … Maybe the target demographic for the Fox awards show shouldn’t exactly be watching the hyper-sexualized, ultra-violent True Blood, so let’s just chalk this travesty up to inexperience.
Nothing against the girl, but this is the award show where Selena Gomez gets five awards for things like choice female hottie (oh, good Lord). She also won choice TV Comedy Actress, Choice Music Single, Choice … Okay, enough with the “choice already.” She also won best love song and musical group, for her band The Scene.
Rebecca Black, who became famous this year because her song Friday, like the flu, spread quickly around the globe due to how bad it was, won “choice web star.” Obviously, these ain’t the Peabody Awards.
The big showdown was supposed to be between Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Parts 1 and 2 and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, but then it seemed like they were all getting awards, based on genre, or the season their movie came out.
Aug 6
2011
02:30 PM ET
'Hairspray' plays the Hollywood Bowl: An on-the-scene report
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Since opening on Broadway in 2002, the infinitely fun musical Hairspray has been the theater world’s big, splashy guilty pleasure. Basically, it boils down to effervescent production numbers, a huge emphasis on the ridiculousness of the ’60s, and a gooey moral center about personal and racial acceptance camouflaged by the fun of wigs, costumes, and a healthy dose of drag. With that combination, really, how can you go wrong? It rarely — if ever — disappoints, and that was certainly the case in its flashy opening at Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood Bowl last night. Even in a super-sized amphitheater of 17,000-plus seats, Hairspray managed to hold.
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