The promotion antics of character actor Sacha Baron Cohen is in full swing as he promotes his new film - Brüno. At the MTV Movie Awards, Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno with his angelic wings descends from the rafters and lands 69-ing Marshall Bruce Mathers III's Eminem @ the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. Enjoy the video clip below -
Director Dan Mazer's Brüno arrives in theaters on Friday, July 10. Sacha Baron Cohen is repped by Ariel Emanuel, Elyse Scherz and Adam Venit @ Endeavor.
MTV Movie Awards hosted by Andy Samberg broadcast the new exclusive The Twilight Saga: New Moon official trailer and now it's on the net for your liking. Enjoy tweens and Twilight-eads alike. Edward Cullen has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning.
Director Chris Weitz's The Twilight Saga: New Moon hits theaters on Friday, November 20. Robert Pattinson is repped by Stephanie Ritz @ Endeavor and Kristen Stewart is repped by Ken Kaplan @ The Gersh Agency.
Taylor Daniel Lautner is repped by Thor Bradwell and Ava Greenfield @ William Morris Agency, attorney P.J. Shapiro @ Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman, Cook, Johnson, Lande & Wolf and publicist Evelyn Karamanos @ WKT Public Relations.
The Alias alumni Bradley Cooper is finding his stride and rocks it again on the silver screen as bachelor party buddy Phil in Director Todd Phillips' Las Vegas romp - The Hangover - which hits theaters on Friday, June 5. Bradley Cooper discovers his inner poser for pixer Norman Jean Roy as he graces the cover and pages of Detail magazine.
The Hangover: Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three buddies drive to Vegas for a blow-out night they'll never forget. But when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning with pounding headaches, they can't remember a thing. Their posh hotel suite is beyond trashed and the groom is nowhere to be found. With no clue of what happened and little time to spare, the trio must attempt to retrace their bad decisions from the night before in order to figure out where things went wrong and hopefully get Doug back to L.A. in time for his wedding. However, the more they begin to uncover, the more they realize just how much trouble they're really in.
To read the article and view the slideshow pictures, visit GQ.com. The issue hits newsstands on Tuesday, June 2.
Norman Jean Roy
Bradley Cooper is repped by Dan Aloni, Chris Andrews, Dave Bugliari, Jason Heyman and Michael A Katcher @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA), manager Susan Calogerakis @ Thruline Entertainment, publicist Nicole Caruso @ WKT Public Relations and commercial agency Todd Shemarya Artists.
The staffers @ Entertainment Tonight [ET] do what they do best, they tease. This time, with tween's vampire-love sequel to mega-hit Twilight saga - New Moon. The folks @ ET deliver the preview of the trailer for New Moon, enjoy salivating over nothing below.
To catch the full New Moon trailer, you'll have to be strapped watching MTV Movie Awards hosted by Andy Samberg on Sunday. Good luck with wasting three hours of your life on that mind-numbing program. The Hills season finale with series regular - Lauren Conrad's final episode airs on Sunday night as well, before the MTV Movie Awards.
Director Chris Weitz's New Moon hits theaters on Friday, November 20. Edward Cullen has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning.
Orlando Bloom came out to support and party at NYC's rooftop of the Plaza Hotel to watch the lighting of Burberry's 50-foot logo on top of its new Americas Headquarters on Madison Avenue. The Burberry Foundation made a $500,000 commitment to the Robin Hood Foundation to support public education and job training in New York City.
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Orlando Bloom is repped by Jimmy Darmody and Kevin Huvane @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA), attorney Patti Felker @ Felker Toczek Gellman Suddleson, LLP, manager Aleen Keshishian @ Brillstein Entertainment Partners and publicist Robin Baum @ PMK/HBH Public Relations.
The Republican and GOP convention's once photo-op fixture Levi Jonhston continues his media tour of striking out on his own and away from his baby's mother - Bristol Palin - and former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's clan. The 19-year-old father Levi graces the pages of GQ as a model and discusses the difficulties of raising his son - Tripp - with no money and no job on the horizon.
The Levi Johnston GQ magazine issue with Christian Bale on the cover and in the pages is on newsstands now and available for subscription as well.
Levi Johnston is repped by lawyer slash publicist Rex Butler. To read the complete article on Levi Johnston, visit GQ.com.
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Update: The Daily News reveal the sneak peek of Playgirl's black-&-white artistic pictorial of aspiring model and actor Levi Johnston controversial revealing photos for the adult magazine. Levi Johnston's manager Tank Jones tells Us magazine that "People are going to see more of Levi than they thought." And that "He's ready to shock the world. The hell with 15 minutes."
It seems the faux-nekkid spread might be in the vain of Farrah Fawcett's 1997 artistic Playboy photos and less raunchy, which is a smart move on Johnston's part and his creative team. I personally have no interest in seeing his photos, but he definitely knows how to market himself. We updated Levi Johnston blog-snippet because (RR) readers demand it.
The new episodes of Weeds starts next month and Showtime has released a new trailer of Season 5, with guest star Alanis Morrissette as an obstetrician. Weeds Season 5 begins on Monday, June 08.
Weeds is about Parker's widowed suburban mother - Nancy Botwin - determinedly keeping up appearances in her idyllic community, where residents remain oblivious to the fact that Botwin's the source of the high-quality marijuana that's suddenly flooded the community. Mary-Louise Parker is repped by Scott Henderson @ William Morris Agency.
Rolling Stone's The New Princess of Pop: Lady Gaga [Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta] graces the cover and pages of the magazine's The 2009 Hot List issue.
To read the complete article and view photog David LaChapelle's behind-the-scenes video, visit rollingstone.com.
My playwright bud and past (RR)-er political contributor Jason [Stürmer] Roberts worked on these funny family webisodes - The Odd Squad, and I thought you kids would enjoy it. The first episode appropriately titled Making History is below for your viewing.
Update: The Odd Squad crew disabled the embed vimeo clip, so I've included their website link below for your viewing.
Executive Producer: MeLisa Lomelino Written By: Nathan Davis and MeLisa Lomelino Film Editing By: Ryun Hovind Original Theme By: Travis Krouse Cinematography By: Christopher Rutkowski Production Design By: David Nicholson Sound Editing by: Alec Sherrie Makeup & Hair By: Jackie Soriano Costume Design By: Joquena Lomelino Documentary Footage By: Eddi Garcia Camera Operators: Neil Arellano and AJ Wedding Sound Department: Steve Zelt [Mixer] & Jason Roberts [Boom Operator] Script Coordinator: Patty Lerma Production Assistants: Emily Waizenegger and Jessica Buchanan Extras: Kris Kimberly
The premiere publication USA Today landed the first look pix of director M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender based on Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. The production pix includes Dev Patel as the evil Zuko a firebender: who can manipulate flames and Noah Ringer as Aang an Avatar: who manipulates the weather.
The Last Airbender is the adventures of the successor to a long line of Avatars who must put aside his irresponsible ways to save the world. Dev Patel is repped by Brinda Bhatt and Stephanie Comer @ United Talent Agency. M. Night Shyamalan is repped by Richard Green and Richard Lovett @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA), attorneys Stephen Breimer @ Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman & Goodman, LLP and Marc H. Glick @ Glick & Weintraub and publicist Leslee Dart @ 42West.
The Last Airbender rolls into theaters on July 4th of 2010. You can read the full article @ usatoday.com.
After being knighted as one of Time's 100 Influential People, our first lady Michelle Obama is annotated as a cover girl and given an examination under The Meaning of Michelle story. Here are snippets from the interviews:
On Michelle Obama's style: You've got to make choices that make sense for you ... because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently. So you might as well start with what you like, and what you care about, what your passions are, what makes sense. That's my message to women, if anything, over the course of this, is, find your space. Find your spot. Wear what you love. Choose the careers that may have meaning to you, because there's always somebody who will say, I wouldn't have worn that color, or why didn't you work at that job."
On advices she received from former first ladies: The most unexpected and uniform advice that I got was, Go to Camp David, early and often. It's one place you can go where you feel some level of freedom and an ability to breathe.
On being a role model: There are thousands of Michelle and Barack Obamas all over this nation.
The side-effect of recession is time and creativity, and a film fan created a faux teaser trailer for director James Cameron's Avatar. The upcoming Cameron $200 billion-budget film rolls into the theaters on Friday, December 18.
Avatar is about a band of humans pitted in a battle against a distant planet's indigenous population.
Jonathan Mostow directs Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames and Jack Noseworthy in his new futuristic graphic novel adaptation film - Surrogates. The big whigs @ Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures have release the 1st look trailer below via myspace -
Surrogates - set in not-so-distant futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact vicariously through surrogate robots - rolls into theaters nationwide on Friday, September 25.
In Funny or Die! spoof short, actor Cam Gigandet takes down mad tweeny fans - who can't seem to distinguish him from his Twilight James character - on a soccer fields. This For Your Consideration promotional clip serves as a Best Fight nomination entry for upcoming MTV Movie Awards 2009 hosted by Andy Samberg
Cam Joslin Gigandet is repped by Brandt Joel @ Endeavor and managers Matt Luber and Lena Roklin @ Luber Roklin Entertainment.
2x oscar nominee actor Brad Pitt shows up at 62nd Edition Cannes Film Festival to promote his new WWII film - Inglourious Basterds - directed by Quentin Tarantino and co-stars Eli Roth and Diane Kruger. NBC's Today Show co-host gushes over the actor while interviewing him about his personal life under the guise of film press junket sit-down.
Inglourious Basterds hits theaters on Friday, August 21. Brad Pitt is repped by Kevin Huvane, Jon Levin and Bryan Lourd @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA), attorney Alan Hergott @ Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman, LLP and manager Cynthia Pett-Dante @ Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
2x oscar nominee and 1x winner Angleina Jolie promotes Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger's Inglourious Basterds premiere @ 62nd Edition Festival De Cannes in France.
Inglourious Basterds rolls into theaters nationwide on Friday, August 21. Angelina Jolie is managed by Geyer Kosinski and Oren Segal @ Media Talent Group.
Splash & Dlisted
Brad Pitt is repped by Kevin Huvane, Jon Levin and Bryan Lourd @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA), attorney Alan Hergott @ Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman, LLP and manager Cynthia Pett-Dante @ Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
CBS 60 Minutes reporter Morley Safer dives into Vogue editor Anna Wintour's world and discusses the progress and recession state of fashion and effects on its fashionistas. You can see 60 Minutes's 13:03 [minutes:seconds] piece below -
You can see Ms. Wintour's interview outtakes @ cbsnews.com.
New Moon actor Robert Pattinson attends a promotional photo call at the Magestic Pier during the 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France to promote his development film - Unbound Captives. Madeleine Stowe's directorial debut film tells the story of May, living on the frontier in 1859, is nearly killed after a Comanche war party murders her husband and kidnaps her two children. May is rescued by Tom, a mysterious frontiersman, and he attempts to track down the war party and free the children.
Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz co-stars in Unbound Captives and domestic distribution rights packaged by Endeavor Independent. New Moon rolls into theaters on Friday, November 20.
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Robert Pattinson is repped by Stephanie Ritz @ Endeavor and Madeleine Stowe is repped by Leslie Siebert @ The Gersh Agency.
The recession ridden hochos @ Warner Brothers have released director Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes trailer, starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan and Rachel McAdams and rolls into theaters on Friday, December 25. This Sherlock Holmes looks to be darker and more sophisticated with his trustee number two man-child - Law's Dr. Watson.
Guy Stuart Ritchie is repped by Elizabeth Swofford @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds and Betty White take a new hilarious approach to promoting their new romantic-comedy film - The Proposal - by spoofing themselves and their marquee's alter ego in this Funny or Die short. The Proposal rolls into theaters on Friday, June 19.
In director Anne Fletcher's The Proposal, when high-powered book Bullock's editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon Reynolds' assistant Andrew, who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.
The Killers released The World We Live In music video off their Day & Age studio album, love this song and reminds me of Tears For Fears's Elemental disc whenever I hear it. Enjoy kids, and leave your comments below.
Day & Age was released in November 2008 and it never gets old, I still blare in my house and car. Later kids. Btw, if you don't have this 3rd studio album, hit up iTunes and buy the deluxe album asap.
My bud Ejen Chuang has two upcoming shows on Thursday, June 11 @ Todd/Browning Gallery [East to West] and Spring Arts Tower [Life Below The Line], the exhibits will include images of singer Matthew Bellamy of Muse @ Starlight and Queen of the Stone Age @ 3 & 7 music video shoots. Here's a snag posting from his EjenChuang.blogspot.com below.
So this is my official posting. I'll have two shows at June's Downtown Art Walk (that is June 11, 2009). Yes two....and here's the story behind this. For about a year now, the management of my office building have egged me on showing my work in the lobby. They know I do production stills and behind the scenes and I've been tinkering with an idea of documenting "life below the line" so finally after 8 or 10 months, I've decided to just do it. So when you walk into this 1920s Art Deco office building, my images will be gracing the walls of the lobby.
Meanwhile, the owner of the Todd/Browning Gallery (yes, I believe this is a tribute to THAT Todd) around the corner had seen my series I did on folks who dressed up at anime conventions and been pushing me to show it. I feel flatter, seriously because they usually don't put up unpublished photographers and I don't have a book out. The images were shot at the Anime Expo convention from the summer of 2008. I used to be into anime when I was younger but stop going a while back. That summer Anime Expo happen to be at the LA Convention Center so I decided to bring my camera, lights and a backdrop. 3 days and 250 portraits later, I had a series :)
The Todd/Browning one is a group show with another photographer and the show itself is called "East to West".
LBTL [life below the line] Spring Arts Tower 453 S. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90013
Don't worry, they're only around the corner from each other so you won't have to walk too far. For those who don't know about the Downtown Art Walk, it has grown so much in the past few years. Attendance is usually around 3,000 folks and can feel like a street fair. Local restaurants and shops have specials going on during the event and last month the Kogi Korean Taco truck made an appearance! I suggest getting here early to snag parking. It usually gets going closer to 7:30/8 pm.
Animator Luke Randall used Maya, Photoshop and After Effects to create this true to life grasp of a short film appropriately titled Reach. Randall describes it as a tiny robot given the gift of life with sole limitation: the length of his power cable. When a curious bird appears at the workshop window, the tiny robot feels a lust to live outside of his reach that may lead to his demise.
Luke Randall's Reach is a finalist in Cannes Short Film Corner competition and would appreciate your support by clicking here to use YouTube star rating to vote and spreading the word.
Ben Watts and Tom Schierlitz shoot Star Trek actor Chris Pine for June issue of GQ and Pine opens up about his role as a Trekkie god and his work [craft]. Here are some excerpts from the interview:
On not being much of a Trekkie: I was a Star Wars kid. The kitsch factor in the original Star Trek series is high, but the show manages to take on these huge questions about race, sex, and war. I have a great appreciation for what Mr. Shatner did with the part. There's a gravity to it, but he's having fun.
On being interested in diverse roles and concerns about being typecast forever because of his looks: I did a movie called Smokin’ Aces, and the casting director didn’t want to see me for the role of a neo-Nazi hit man. But it didn’t bum me out. I had to prove I could do it.
On Lindsay Lohan's media circus when they co-starred in Just My Luck [in 2006]: She was making a lot of money and attracting a lot of attention from the paparazzi. It put in stark relief that I don't want that kind of life.
Ben Watts
To read the full article and see pix by photographers Ben Watts and Tom Schierlitz, visit GQ.com. Star Trek is in theaters now and run out to see it, it's EXCELLENT.
The honchos @ Weinstein Company have released the first look trailer for Chicago director Rob Marshall's Nine. The film is inspired by Fellini film 8½ - story focuses on a film director stuck in neutral as he tries to make a movie while haunted by the demands of all the women in his life, including a wife, mistress and even his deceased mother.
Nine hits theaters nationwide on Friday, November 25. Robert Marshall is repped by Kevin Huvane @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and attorneys Michael Gendler and Kevin Kelly @ Gendler & Kelly, APC. He's also a partner @ Lucamar Productions.
I've known about author Sapphire [Ramona Lofton]'s Push since 1999 when she first appeared on The Charlie Rose Show and have wanted to read her book since. Then the 1996 published Push was later optioned for adaptation, began shooting on 10/24/2007 and screened at 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where it won three awards: the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize for Acting (Mo'Nique).
Push was retitled as Precious when Lionsgate purchased director Lee Daniels' film @ Sundance with Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry presenting the incredible film. And finally today, the trailer is here. So click the image [below] to view the full trailer.
Precious is about Clareece "Precious" Jones - an overweight, illiterate African-American teenager in Harlem in 1987. Just as she's about to give birth to her second child, Jones is accepted into an alternative school where a teacher helps her find a new path in her life.
Precious rolls into theaters on Friday, November 6.
Update: I've embed the trailer and official synopsis: Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece Precious Jones, a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn't know the meaning of "alternative", but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain, Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination.
Friend and artist Uriel Arad invited me to an opening and Group Art Show and Juried exhibition titled Art48LA @ H1 Gallery located at 8421 Lankershim Boulevard in Sun Valley, California [91352] to see some great arts and meet talent individuals, and I met Glitz & Grime's artist Brandon [one-third of the trio artists] upon checking out Glitz & Grime's extensive art pieces.
Glitz & Grime
Glitz & Grime is "a mixed media art group and collaborative trio that incoroporates digital design with physical material such as paint, light, sparkles and paper mache". Glitz & Grime is featured @ H1 Gallery until Wednesday, June 10 and will "be doing a really big show" - [Project Ethos] on Friday, June 5 @ The Vanguard in Hollywood.
Clay Aiken, Alan Alda, Sheryl Crow, Mary J. Blige, Adam Levine [vocalist of Maroon 5] and Elvis Costello star in Tina Fey's upcoming 30 Rock season finale's episode. This new super-ender airs this Thursday, May 14.
Elizabeth Stama[Tina] Fey is repped by Michelle Bohan, Philip Raskind and Richard Weitz @ Endeavor and managed by David Miner @ 3 Arts Entertainment.
The 62nd edition of Cannes Film Festival [Festival de Cannes] begins Wednesday, May 13 and concludes on Sunday, May 24, and the official selections in these films catergories: Feature Film, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Cinefondation and Special Screenings - are now available. Click on the image [below] to see the film entries.
Isabelle Huppert as the president of the feature film jury and her co-juror can be seen by clicking the iconic image [below]:
The stars of Star Trek - Leonard Nimoy, Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto - beam into Saturday Night Live's Weekend Updates and reassures all trekkies and SNL-er Seth Meyers that this isn't their father's Star Trek, but entertaining nonetheless. I saw the film @ The Grove on Saturday and loved it, and I'm not even a trekkie.
The surprising story was well-written and strong with subtext, and the performances rival any Dark Knight acting effort. Star Trek is a must-see for the whole family, especially for summer movie-goers and cine-philes. As the trekkies say, [Vulcan salute], "long live and prosper".
American Idol alumn and singer-songwriter Elliott Yamin was spotted @ Sherman Oaks Galleria mall. Elliott Yamin's new studio album - Fight For Love - was released this past Tuesday on May 5.
Fight For Love is available on iTunes and in music stores now. His first self-titled album - Elliott Yamin, Xmas special discs: Sounds of the Season: The Elliott Yamin Holiday Collection and My Kind of Holiday are available as well.
Jeff [The Dude] Dowd, Jon Polito [Da Fino], Phlip Moon [Woo the rug pisser], Jim Hoosier [Liam], Jesse Flanagan [Little Larry], Luis Colina [Corvette Owner], Lu Elrod [Waitress], Robin Jones [Ralph's Checkout Girl] and Yuto Miyazawa come out tonight @ Lebowski Fest LA Movie Party @ The Wiltern celebrating The Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski.
Bill Green
The Wiltern is located @ 3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90010 and door opens @ 7pm, show begings @ 8pm for all ages. For more information, visit LebowskiFest.com.
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