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Grace Kelly was one of the most beautiful and enduring stars of her era, the movie queen who literally gave up Hollywood to become a princess. Now director Olivier Dahan is bringing an episode from her life to the big screen, with Nicole Kidman playing Princess Grace, and the first images from the upcoming film have been released.
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'The Great Gatsby'/James Franco (Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures/Getty Images)
Now that we know what what the majority of critics think about Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" and that audiences were ready to gobble up F. Scott Fitzgerald's roaring 20s brought to life by Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire, giving it an impressive $50 million opening weekend, you'd think we'd be finished hearing about what people think of the movie. That is until we found out that actor James Franco decided to write a review of the film for Vice magazine.
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Nearly half a century after it was devised, the Vulcan salute endures (Photo: Getty/Inset: Everett)When Spock started exploring the final frontier that is space with the rest of the U.S.S. Enterprise crew in 1966, his pointy ears and eyebrows signified he was another species. But a year passed on "Star Trek" before we got to see him in his element on his home planet of Vulcan, throwing up that famed hand gesture.
The Vulcan salute was Spock actor Leonard Nimoy's idea and Nimoy's idea alone. The well-known gesture first appeared in the second-season premiere episode of "Star Trek" titled "Amok Time."
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"You're not afraid of the dark, are ya?"
If that line uttered by Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel) in the new "Riddick" trailer sounds familiar, that's because, well, it is -- he said the same thing to the (mostly doomed) members of the supporting cast of his feature film debut, "Pitch Black" (2000).
And, somewhat thankfully, a lot of the "Riddick" trailer will remind you of "Pitch Black." Once again, our anti-hero -- a forever-hunted ex-con who can see in the dark thanks to a "shine job" he received during his time in the "slam" -- is on some desolate desert-like planet. A group of "bounty hunters" (why does he call them that and not "mercs"?) shows up, and Riddick proceeds to pick them off one by one. Then night falls and, well, if you've seen "Pitch Black," you know what that means -- the real monsters come out, forcing Riddick and his would-be hunters to join forces in an epic battle for survival.
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Jason Merritt/Getty ImagesThey say too many chefs spoil the soup … and make things confusing in the movie business.
Bradley Cooper, riding high on "Silver Linings Playbook" and the upcoming "Hangover Part III," has just signed on to star in a new drama from director John Wells called "Chef." If that title sounds familiar, it should: it was also announced this week that Robert Downey Jr. has committed to appear in a comedy called "Chef," which is being directed by Jon Favreau, who will also star.
Making the story more complicated, Sony Pictures, who were attached to the Wells film before the project moved over to The Weinstein Company, has issued a cease and desist letter to Favreau and his production company Fairview Entertainment. Sony claims they registered the title "Chef" with the Motion Picture Association of America and passed along the rights to TWC, meaning Favreau's project is in violation.
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Mo'Nique before (Photo: WireImage)Mo'Nique is serious these days about taking care of her health, and in a new radio interview, she's revealing some of the secrets behind her workout routine and new svelte figure.
The 45-year-old actress and comedienne, who won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 2010 for her role in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," sat down this week with The Cipha Sounds & Rosenberg Show on New York radio station Hot 97 FM for a long-ranging half-hour interview, in which she discussed topics ranging from Charles Ramsey to Iyanla Vanzant. But the story behind her dramatic weight loss is what's turning heads.
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Well that didn't take long. After an almost instantly negative online reaction to Disney's revamped and clearly more "sexy" version of "Brave" princess Merida, the Mouse House has bowed to the public backlash and pulled the revamped young lady from its Disney Princesses website and replaced it with the original version from the Pixar movie.
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Splash NewsWhere else would Captain America spend his time but the nation's capitol, checking out the historic sights?
On Tuesday, the cast and crew of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" rolled into Washington D.C. to do some filming on the national mall, with the dome of the Capitol serving as their backdrop.
Fans and local press soon spotted the good Captain himself, Chris Evans, wearing a snug grey S.H.I.E.L.D. T-shirt and doing push-ups to keep himself pumped up between takes. Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson, looking typically tough but sexy, was in costume as Black Widow. Anthony Mackie, who plays Falcon, was also on hand.
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After all the box office success and awards season glory won by last year's Best Picture nominee "Les Miserables," Hollywood seems ready to get back into musical-making business, and specifically those with origins on Broadway. First there was the buzz about a Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum-led adaptation of "Guys and Dolls" for the big screen and now we have word that two other Hollywood heartthrobs have signed up to sing for us.
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LionsgateThe first official poster for "The Hunger Games" sequel has been released, and not surprisingly it features our young heroine, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), grimly assessing the treacherous landscape of "Catching Fire."
Katniss stands on the top of a cliff, her trademark bow and arrow in hand, indulging somewhat melancholy yet determined thoughts as illustrated by the text above her that reads "The Sun Persists in Rising, So I Make Myself Stand," which fans will recognize as a quote from Suzanne Collins' source novel. It's a majestic image, complete with a cloud shaped like the Mockingjay, which will become the symbol of the people's revolution in Panem.
Katniss is dressed more like a fashion model than a growing-ever-harder warrior, which makes one wonder just what kind of tone "Catching Fire" is going for. The book is a decidedly darker outing than its predecessor, though the poster and teaser trailer released last month suggest that director Francis Lawrence is taking a
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