The teaser one-sheet for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, in theaters Nov. 20,has been released confirming what we long suspected -- both Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) are hotter with shorter hair. At first glance, I thought this poster belonged to Lautner: The clenched fist and jaw, the bicep, the eye. (And again, the hair.) But then I looked closer at Pattinson, smiled that I actually get paid for this, and noted the purposeful peek of manly chest hair. Suddenly, I remembered that New Moon is a battle between a boy and a man -- not just a wolf and a vampire -- for Bella's affections. (You'll need to find an enlarged image to fully appreciate what I'm extracting from the photo. Of chest hair. Wait, this is what I get paid for?)
My other thoughts: That expressive look on Kristen Stewart's face allows me to hope that the acting in the sequel will be much improved. The coloring of the background reminds me of fan-made New Moon posters. (Coincidence?) I'm liking that this film already feels darker and more atmospheric than the first.
For our first-ever PopWatch Movie Exit Poll, we invited our EW Twitter followers to share their snap judgments of two of the weekend's most notable movie openings: Coraline and He's Just Not That Into You." The pithiest comments forthwith:
He's Just Not That Into You
"A bit of a
preachy mess that never managed to make a cohesive point. Enjoyable
moments, though. Ben & Jen's story was the best." --genvessel
"I was Just Not That Into it, I hope I didn't lead the movie on." --allthewine
Coraline
"Coraline's 3D artistry + animation are awe-inspiring and spectacular. Overall, tho, I'm sorta meh. It lacked a certain edge." --katherinen
"Coraline was brilliant, whimsical, and haunting. Perfect use of 3D animation, which was absolutely magical. Breathtaking." --televisionary
Want to participate in our next Exit Poll? Sign up to follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/EWPopWatch). Keep an eye out for our Exit Poll tweets, @reply with your 140-character review, then check back here Monday mornings to see if your comment was selected. We might make ya famous...
Last week we asked you which anthems you expected and/or wanted to see on VH1’s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. Well, today, to coincide with the net's 10 p.m. ET unveiling of the top 20, we'll conclude our festivities with another challenge: Rank the top 10, in order of oh-my-god-this-song-rocks-so-hard-iness. The fine folks at VH1 have revealed those 10 tunes exclusively to you, PopWatchers. Here they are, in alphabetical order:
• AC/DC's "Back in Black"
• Aerosmith's "Walk This Way"
• Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"
• Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle"
• Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love"
• Metallica's "Enter Sandman"
• Motörhead's "Ace of Spades"
• Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
• Van Halen's "Runnin’ with the Devil"
• The Who's "Won’t Get Fooled Again"
We know how we would arrange our list. (Hint: “Back in Black,” "Runnin' with the Devil," and “Welcome to the Jungle,” you may proceed to the head of the class.) But who cares what we think? Give us your top 10, using these selections. (And yes, if you hate VH1’s picks, you also can make a list using hard rock songs of your choosing.)
Yeah, I was a big fan of season 1, but even so, this hot-ass poster stopped me in my tracks when I saw it on the train earlier this week. How come Glenn Close can say more in a still photo than those chicks from The Hills do in a half-hour of television? Oh yeah, I said it! Anyhow, I'm giving this poster a 9.5. How 'bout you?
According to Variety, Rob Schneider is set to star in the "sex comedy" Virgin on Bourbon Street. All the trade says about the plot of the film is that it "sees a night of debauchery threaten the university career of a sexually abstinent woman student." I poked around online, and it appears as though Step Up's Jenna Dewan plays a co-ed with a scholarship from an abstinence group, and Schneider is the Chicks Go Crazy producer who, I'm just guessing here, tries to corrupt her.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how painful does this movie sound?
Taylor Swift and Def Leppard join forces for the latest CMT Crossroads concert, premiering Nov. 7 at 9 p.m. ET. Take a look at their "Photograph" below, and tell us how psyched you are for the rest of the show....Or, at the very least, applaud her ability to pull off a sequined gold mini dress and cowboy boots.
Say it with me, Eminem fans: FINALLY! Reports have been flying for months that Em is recording a long-awaited comeback album. And last night at his book release party (Margeaux was there!), the pieces all came together. Em told the revelers that there is indeed an album coming soon... it's called Relapse... and today a two-minute lyrical clinic called "I'm Having a Relapse," apparently the first taste of that album, is all over the Web.
You can check it out below, but be warned, it's super-NSFW. And that's part of what makes this song so awesome for those who, like me, have been waiting years for the real Slim Shady to return. Em's flow, at one time the industry's wickedest, is right back on point — a huge relief for anyone who's been left underwhelmed by some of his half-asleep-sounding latter-day performances. What's more, he's using that delivery to spew the kind of perverse, hyper-aggressive wordplay that made fans out of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and billions of suburban teenagers back in 1999-2000. (Man, was it really that long ago that I saw Carson Daly introduce "My Name Is" for the first time?) Nah Right's Eskay has it right: "Drugs, violence, wacky voices and flows upon flows. Yep, he's back."
In other words, if you never really liked Eminem, I bet you'll be giving this somewhere in the vicinity of a 1. But if you're like me and you think pop culture has been sorely missing his subversive influence — if you've been longing for the only artist who can cross this many lines and offend this many listeners in a way that's actually clever, not just crass — you'll be leaning towards a 7 or higher. So how would you score it? And meanwhile, get ready for a lot more insight into Em's mind when the new issue of EW hits stands tomorrow with an exclusive excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, The Way I Am...
According to Variety, Daily Show correspondents (and spouses) Samantha Bee and Jason Jones are writing a pilot script for CBS: "The couple would also star in the as-yet-untitled comedy, which will revolve around the behind-the-scenes world of a celebrity chef (played by Jones) and the two women who run his cooking empire (one of whom will be played by Bee)."
On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely is it that this show will make it to air? I'm feeling a 4. Not because I don't like Bee and Jones and wish them post-Daily Show success.* But because I'm not feeling a cooking comedy. I hope they surprise me.
Last October, I was watching David Arquette's directorial debut The Tripper on DVD,
and in the middle of this campy-ass slasher film was Lukas Haas
singing a dreamy little ballad called "Kemp" to Jaime King. (Watch him perform it live below). Obviously, it stayed
with me, because when I got a press release yesterday announcing that Haas had just released a self-titled EP with Pulse Recording, produced by Tim Anderson of Ima Robot, the first thing I did was look to see if "Kemp" was on it. It is, along with was the songs "My Shooting Star,""We're All the Same," and "Feel." (Download the EP on iTunes or Amazon, hear the tracks on his MySpace page.)
Haas is set to release a full album in early 2009, so take a listen and tell us how likely you'll be to accept actor Lukas Haas as a singer-songwriter. I'm not usually one to encourage crossovers, but he's done his relatively quietly* and I've yet to be annoyed, so I'll do my best to keep an open mind.
* I forgot that he'd been in a band called Bunny with Vincent Gallo, and I had no idea that he's opened for Macy Gray and played piano on her albums, or that he's performed with OutKast on Letterman and TRL, or that his father played the violin and his mother sang opera.
It's the moment we've all been waiting for since we saw Buffy starring opposite a magic crab in Simply Irresistible: Sarah Michelle Gellar is plotting a return to series TV.
According to Variety, she's expected to shoot the half-hour HBO pilot The Wonderful Maladys, written for her by screenwriter Charles Randolph (The Interpreter, The Life of David Gale), early next year: "Set in Gotham, The Wonderful Maladys ensembler revolves around the
dysfunctional lives of three adult siblings who lost their parents at a
young age. Randolph described Gellar's character as having 'a kind of zealous immaturity — like a drug addict with a to-do list.'"
On a scale of 1 to 10, how psyched are you? Here's why I'm a hope-filled 10: When I talked to Gellar last summer for EW's 1000th issue, we chatted about the 10 male TV characters she wishes she could have played. The variety in her picks made her more interesting to me than any role I've seen her in since Buffy the Vampire Slayer went off the air in 2003. On HBO, in a series that sounds ripe for dark comedy, she might meet her match. Agree?
The teaser one-sheet for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, in theaters Nov. 20, has been released confirming what we long suspected -- both Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner) are hotter with shorter hair. At first glance, I thought this poster belonged to Lautner: The clenched fist and jaw, the bicep, the eye. (And again, the hair.) But then I looked closer at Pattinson, 
For our first-ever PopWatch Movie Exit Poll, we invited our 
Yeah, I was a big fan of season 1, but even so, this hot-ass poster stopped me in my tracks when I saw it on the train earlier this week. How come Glenn Close can say more in a still photo than those chicks from The Hills do in a half-hour of television? Oh yeah, I said it! Anyhow, I'm giving this poster a 9.5. How 'bout you?
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