"These are dark times, you can not deny." Thus begins the brand new promotional trailer for the upcoming 3D sequel "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I."
The British boy wizard will once again work their magic in the film to the public "Deathly Hallows" hits theaters in November. A look at the trailer, released Wednesday by Warner Bros. Pictures, shows how the action more than ever, when Harry multiple - at least six of them - conspired to help him fight his enemy Lord Voldemort.
Friends of Harry, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, also joined the fight against the Dark Lord, who now has control of the Ministry of Magic. But as Voldemort's powers grow, the link between the three schoolmates at Hogwarts is impaired, and Ron and Harry come to blows.
Will they remain friends and defeat Voldemort? The answer remains in doubt because, as the trailer groups, "can only live" when it comes to the battle between the evil Voldemort and Harry good.
Potter films, based on the bestselling novels of JK Rowling, have raised billions of dollars at the box office worldwide. Rowling's latest book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' split into two films, with the second installment hits theaters next July.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Movies and Entertainment: Kanye West Writes Song For Taylor Swift
Kanye West, who is set to be a part of next weekend's MTV Video Music Awards, unleashed a stream-of-consciousness tweet-fest Saturday about how he is "bled hard" and wishes to make amends for interrupting Taylor Swift at last year's VMAs.
"How deep is the scar... I bled hard.. cancelled tour with the number one pop star in the world \.\. closed the doors of my clothing office," tweeted Kanye, who said the press tried to "demonize" him after the incident.
"Had to let employees go... for the first time I felt the impact of my brash actions \.\. I felt the recession from an possession side," they continued.
Assuring the Twitter world that he is filled with "new found humility," the rapper said he is offering Swift a token of his regret: "I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that is so pretty and I need her to have it. If they won't take it then I'll perform it for her."
They wound his inner-monologue down by basically saying, "I'm sorry Taylor."
"How deep is the scar... I bled hard.. cancelled tour with the number one pop star in the world \.\. closed the doors of my clothing office," tweeted Kanye, who said the press tried to "demonize" him after the incident.
"Had to let employees go... for the first time I felt the impact of my brash actions \.\. I felt the recession from an possession side," they continued.
Assuring the Twitter world that he is filled with "new found humility," the rapper said he is offering Swift a token of his regret: "I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that is so pretty and I need her to have it. If they won't take it then I'll perform it for her."
They wound his inner-monologue down by basically saying, "I'm sorry Taylor."
Monday, September 6, 2010
Movies and Entertainment: Robert Schimmel Dies In Car Accident
Standup comic Robert Schimmel, whose X-rated brand of humor made him a Howard Stern favourite, has died from injuries suffered in a automobile accident. They was 60.
The Bronx-born Schimmel died Friday night in a Phoenix hospital, said his spokesman, Howard Bragman.
Schimmel, a frequent visitor on Stern's radio show, was riding in a automobile driven by his 19-year-old daughter, Aliyah, when the vehicle flipped Aug. 26.
Bragman said Aliyah Schimmel swerved to keep away from another vehicle & lost control of the automobile, sending it rolling to the side of the freeway.
Schimmel's daughter is hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries.
His 11-year-old son, who also was in the automobile, was reportedly released from the hospital hours after the accident.
The son of Holocaust survivors, Schimmel rose to stardom with the help of Rodney Dangerfield.
In 1986, Dangerfield invited Schimmel to perform on his HBO "Young Comedians Special," setting the young comic on his path to fame.
In addition to appearing with Stern, Schimmel was a frequent visitor on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien."
The self-deprecating Schimmel was known for incorporating details from his personal life - the lovely, the bad & the ugly - in to his routines. Schimmel survived a heart assault & battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His first marriage ended in a messy divorce; they was on the brink of splitting along with his second spouse.
"He was the butt of his own jokes & lampooned his own foibles & distinctive circumstance," Bob Merlis, the veteran music publicist who signed him to Warner Bros. Records in 1996, told the Examiner.com. Schimmel is survived by his brother, Otto; father, Sandy; father, Jeffrey & his second spouse, Melissa.
He is also survived by his seven kids from his first marriage - Jessica, Aliyah & Jacob - & seven sons from his second marriage, Max & Sam.
The Bronx-born Schimmel died Friday night in a Phoenix hospital, said his spokesman, Howard Bragman.
Schimmel, a frequent visitor on Stern's radio show, was riding in a automobile driven by his 19-year-old daughter, Aliyah, when the vehicle flipped Aug. 26.
Bragman said Aliyah Schimmel swerved to keep away from another vehicle & lost control of the automobile, sending it rolling to the side of the freeway.
Schimmel's daughter is hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries.
His 11-year-old son, who also was in the automobile, was reportedly released from the hospital hours after the accident.
The son of Holocaust survivors, Schimmel rose to stardom with the help of Rodney Dangerfield.
In 1986, Dangerfield invited Schimmel to perform on his HBO "Young Comedians Special," setting the young comic on his path to fame.
In addition to appearing with Stern, Schimmel was a frequent visitor on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien."
The self-deprecating Schimmel was known for incorporating details from his personal life - the lovely, the bad & the ugly - in to his routines. Schimmel survived a heart assault & battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His first marriage ended in a messy divorce; they was on the brink of splitting along with his second spouse.
"He was the butt of his own jokes & lampooned his own foibles & distinctive circumstance," Bob Merlis, the veteran music publicist who signed him to Warner Bros. Records in 1996, told the Examiner.com. Schimmel is survived by his brother, Otto; father, Sandy; father, Jeffrey & his second spouse, Melissa.
He is also survived by his seven kids from his first marriage - Jessica, Aliyah & Jacob - & seven sons from his second marriage, Max & Sam.
Movies and Entertainment: George Clooney's "The American" First Over Labor Day!
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – George Clooney outgunned his rivals at the Labor Day holiday weekend box office in North The united states with a low-caliber opening for his assassin drama "The American," as the profitable summer moviegoing season wound down on a historicallyin the past weak note.
According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, "The American" earned $13 million in the work of the three-day period beginning September 3; its tally stands at $16.1 million since Wednesday, when it got a two-day head-start on the competition.
The opening is slightly better than industry forecasts, but is similar to that of his 2008 flop "Leatherheads," which ended its brief run with $31.3 million.
The film, in which Clooney plays a stone-faced gun enthusiast holed up in a picturesque French town, was directed by rock photographer Anton Corbijn. It was released by Focus Features, the art-house unit of General Electric Co's NBC Universal.
Also new were 20th Century Fox's violent fantasy "Machete" at No. 3 with $11.3 million, & Warner Bros.' Drew Barrymore romantic comedy "Going the Distance" at No. 5 with $6.9 million. Both opened on Friday.
"Machete," a bloody homage to 1970s B-movies using the immigration debate as a backdrop, stars character actor Danny Trejo as a Mexican assassin with a penchant for dispatching people with sharp objects. Robert Rodriguez directed with Ethan Maniquis. Fox said the audience was 60 percent Latino.
"Going the Distance" stars Barrymore & Justin Long as bi-coastal lovers. It is the latest in a string of rom-com flops for the actress, including "Lucky You," "Music & Lyrics" & "Fever Pitch."
TICKET SALES SLIDE
Last weekend's champion, the Screen Gems heist drama "Takers," slipped to No. 2 with $11.5 million, taking its 10-day total to $37.9 million.
Sales for the top-12 films fell to their lowest level since the September 11-13 weekend last year, a fitting coda to a summer lineup whose weak performance was obscured by the 3D boom.
While sales from the first weekend in May through Labor Day on Monday are projected to break last year's record, the increase comes solely from higher ticket prices. The number of tickets sold -- a better gauge of Hollywood's health -- hit its lowest level since 1997.
Tracking firm Hollywood.com Box-Office predicted summer attendance would come in at 552 million tickets sold, a 2.6 percent drop from last year, & the lowest since 1997 when 540 million were sold. It forecast summer receipts of $4.35 billion, up 2.4 percent from last summer's record levels.
The top summer films were "Toy Story 3" ($408 million), "Iron Man 2" ($312 million) & "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" ($298 million). Notable bombs included "Cats & Canines: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" ($42 million), "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" ($29 million), "The Switch" ($21 million), "Jonah Hex" ($10.5 million) -- & now "Going the Distance."
Movies released in 3D, such as "Toy Story 3," "Cats & Canines," "Despicable Me," & "The Last Airbender," allowed film theaters to charge an average premium of $3 per ticket. In some markets, this pushed the ticket cost to $20. The average ticket cost for all movies was $7.88, according to Hollywood.com Box-Office.
Sales are expected to stay weak for the next few weeks as the studios dump their under-performers so that they can focus on status pics catering to awards voters & on holiday-season crowd-pleasers.
Screen Gems is a unit of Sony Corp. 20th Century Fox is a unit of News Corp. Warner Bros. Pics is a unit of Time Warner Inc.
(Reporting by Dean Goodman; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, "The American" earned $13 million in the work of the three-day period beginning September 3; its tally stands at $16.1 million since Wednesday, when it got a two-day head-start on the competition.
The opening is slightly better than industry forecasts, but is similar to that of his 2008 flop "Leatherheads," which ended its brief run with $31.3 million.
The film, in which Clooney plays a stone-faced gun enthusiast holed up in a picturesque French town, was directed by rock photographer Anton Corbijn. It was released by Focus Features, the art-house unit of General Electric Co's NBC Universal.
Also new were 20th Century Fox's violent fantasy "Machete" at No. 3 with $11.3 million, & Warner Bros.' Drew Barrymore romantic comedy "Going the Distance" at No. 5 with $6.9 million. Both opened on Friday.
"Machete," a bloody homage to 1970s B-movies using the immigration debate as a backdrop, stars character actor Danny Trejo as a Mexican assassin with a penchant for dispatching people with sharp objects. Robert Rodriguez directed with Ethan Maniquis. Fox said the audience was 60 percent Latino.
"Going the Distance" stars Barrymore & Justin Long as bi-coastal lovers. It is the latest in a string of rom-com flops for the actress, including "Lucky You," "Music & Lyrics" & "Fever Pitch."
TICKET SALES SLIDE
Last weekend's champion, the Screen Gems heist drama "Takers," slipped to No. 2 with $11.5 million, taking its 10-day total to $37.9 million.
Sales for the top-12 films fell to their lowest level since the September 11-13 weekend last year, a fitting coda to a summer lineup whose weak performance was obscured by the 3D boom.
While sales from the first weekend in May through Labor Day on Monday are projected to break last year's record, the increase comes solely from higher ticket prices. The number of tickets sold -- a better gauge of Hollywood's health -- hit its lowest level since 1997.
Tracking firm Hollywood.com Box-Office predicted summer attendance would come in at 552 million tickets sold, a 2.6 percent drop from last year, & the lowest since 1997 when 540 million were sold. It forecast summer receipts of $4.35 billion, up 2.4 percent from last summer's record levels.
The top summer films were "Toy Story 3" ($408 million), "Iron Man 2" ($312 million) & "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" ($298 million). Notable bombs included "Cats & Canines: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" ($42 million), "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" ($29 million), "The Switch" ($21 million), "Jonah Hex" ($10.5 million) -- & now "Going the Distance."
Movies released in 3D, such as "Toy Story 3," "Cats & Canines," "Despicable Me," & "The Last Airbender," allowed film theaters to charge an average premium of $3 per ticket. In some markets, this pushed the ticket cost to $20. The average ticket cost for all movies was $7.88, according to Hollywood.com Box-Office.
Sales are expected to stay weak for the next few weeks as the studios dump their under-performers so that they can focus on status pics catering to awards voters & on holiday-season crowd-pleasers.
Screen Gems is a unit of Sony Corp. 20th Century Fox is a unit of News Corp. Warner Bros. Pics is a unit of Time Warner Inc.
(Reporting by Dean Goodman; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Movies and Entertainment: The Expandables Review
The Expendables is the name given in this film to the scarred clutch of weathered mercenaries who are led, written & directed by the inimitable Sylvester Stallone.
A more fitting name for them might be the Extendables, since a significant proportion are heroically defying the usual laws of time & gravity.
Among the oldies alongside Stallone are Dolph Lundgren – the granite-jawed blond from Rocky IV – Bruce Willis, & Mickey Rourke. Even Arnie Schwarzenegger appears for a cameo & a spot of appallingly clunky verbal sparring with Sly.
In action terms, it’s like a bunch of superannuated Tiller girls getting together for a last summer show of high kicks: the moves are still there, but there’s a suspicion that they’re assisted by an elastic corset & four Nurofen And. The gang are joined by knife-man Jason Statham, who represents the troubled spirit of youth.
One might have expected from the billing a knowing air of parody about the whole escapade, the sophisticated whisper of spoof. But no: this is Stallone’s film, & they has crafted it with a simple, touching sincerity.
As a faithful devotee of the action style, they wishes to give it to the audience straight, without plenty of devilish computer tricks. I craved more of Rourke, the group’s co-ordinator – who first appears like some lunatic, tattooed shaman with a cheerfully plastic blonde dangling from the back of his motorbike – but they is kept away from the meat of the action, as though his flamboyance might show great a distraction.
Stallone’s face is now a thing to behold, an immobile mass of muscle & cosmetic surgical procedure, trapped in an expression of wounded melancholy: they has to do all his acting with his eyes, like a silent film star.
There's moments when I feared for him, in the work of the scene in which he’s being inexorably throttled, & every vein in his head looks set to make an individual bid for freedom, but one can’t fault his dedication.
The plot is to pin a string of battles on: at the behest of a CIA front-man (Willis), the Expendables are dispatched to overturn the rotten government of a tin-pot state called Vilena, where a suavely nasty American drugs baron, James Munroe (Eric Roberts) is bullying a weak general (David Zayas) in to enacting various forms of oppression.
The General’s daughter (Giselle Itié) is spiritedly leading the opposition, & it falls to Sly & his men to save her from rape, torture & murder.
It’s the kind of plot that might have pleased a bunch of Anglo-Saxon warriors in their mead-hall, but after some time my senses felt bruised & wearied from the wealth of exploding torsos & the inexorable rattle of machine-gun fire.
That’s action, I guess, & lovely luck to you in case you like that kind of thing. It’s not my kind of action.
A more fitting name for them might be the Extendables, since a significant proportion are heroically defying the usual laws of time & gravity.
Among the oldies alongside Stallone are Dolph Lundgren – the granite-jawed blond from Rocky IV – Bruce Willis, & Mickey Rourke. Even Arnie Schwarzenegger appears for a cameo & a spot of appallingly clunky verbal sparring with Sly.
In action terms, it’s like a bunch of superannuated Tiller girls getting together for a last summer show of high kicks: the moves are still there, but there’s a suspicion that they’re assisted by an elastic corset & four Nurofen And. The gang are joined by knife-man Jason Statham, who represents the troubled spirit of youth.
One might have expected from the billing a knowing air of parody about the whole escapade, the sophisticated whisper of spoof. But no: this is Stallone’s film, & they has crafted it with a simple, touching sincerity.
As a faithful devotee of the action style, they wishes to give it to the audience straight, without plenty of devilish computer tricks. I craved more of Rourke, the group’s co-ordinator – who first appears like some lunatic, tattooed shaman with a cheerfully plastic blonde dangling from the back of his motorbike – but they is kept away from the meat of the action, as though his flamboyance might show great a distraction.
Stallone’s face is now a thing to behold, an immobile mass of muscle & cosmetic surgical procedure, trapped in an expression of wounded melancholy: they has to do all his acting with his eyes, like a silent film star.
There's moments when I feared for him, in the work of the scene in which he’s being inexorably throttled, & every vein in his head looks set to make an individual bid for freedom, but one can’t fault his dedication.
The plot is to pin a string of battles on: at the behest of a CIA front-man (Willis), the Expendables are dispatched to overturn the rotten government of a tin-pot state called Vilena, where a suavely nasty American drugs baron, James Munroe (Eric Roberts) is bullying a weak general (David Zayas) in to enacting various forms of oppression.
The General’s daughter (Giselle Itié) is spiritedly leading the opposition, & it falls to Sly & his men to save her from rape, torture & murder.
It’s the kind of plot that might have pleased a bunch of Anglo-Saxon warriors in their mead-hall, but after some time my senses felt bruised & wearied from the wealth of exploding torsos & the inexorable rattle of machine-gun fire.
That’s action, I guess, & lovely luck to you in case you like that kind of thing. It’s not my kind of action.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Movies and Entertainment: Interview With Lisa Edelstein (House's Lisa Cuddy)
As Lisa Cuddy on House, Lisa Edelstein has established one of our favourite characters on TV.
The doctor took a major step at the conclusion of season, admitting her love for her cantankerous co-worker. It is a storyline that will generate the basis for the show's seventh season, which premieres on September 20.
In the following exclusive interview, Edelstein spills a few House spoilers and sheds light on the relationship between these characters...
What are they in for this season?
They’re exploring this relationship between House and Cuddy. What’s great about what [creator David Shore] has done is he’s incorporated all the things one would worry about in terms of six main characters getting together on a show, in to what it means for six individuals who work together in this hospital to get together. So they gets to confront it head on all of those issues.
Will it be smooth sailing for Cuddy and House?
Absolutely not [Laughs].
Many viewers wonder how House manages to stay employed at the hospital with all of antics?
They also saves lots of lives. Ultimately, they gets the results and Cuddy respects him professionally and House knows she’s generating boundaries that they doesn’t know how to make for himself.
The episode "5 to 9" was so great. Will there be another episode from Cuddy’s point of view this season?
Thank you. I was six times frightened to do that episode because it’s not a show called “Cuddy" and I didn’t need to disappoint the people. I loved doing it, it was great. I don’t know if there will be another one. They don’t tell me those things. They hand me a script and the next day they start shooting it.
How is Cuddy dealing with the child this season? Any more in her near future?
The child definitely comes in to play together with her relationship with House. She’s got to be an element of that. It definitely one of the road blocks. [No more children coming] that I do know of.
Will they be introduced to somebody new this season?
Yes. Amber Tamblyn is coming onto the show. I met her six times and he seems lovely and chilled and professional, so that’s lovely. He plays a new character on House’s team.
Is everyone like a relatives on set?
Definitely. They have a great group. There’s no crazy person, there’s no jerk or egomaniac. There’s a bunch of clever individuals who work, are workers, and need to do their job. It’s a pleasant atmosphere.
Hugh Laurie has a reputation for being meticulous along with his worth ethic. Are you the same way?
I have less of a challenge than they does. I’m not speaking in a foreign accent and I have far less dialogue than they does. I think he’s got much more on his plate than I do. Since most of my scenes are with him, I definitely try to show up with my work done so that I do know I’m not going to hold up the process in anything.
The doctor took a major step at the conclusion of season, admitting her love for her cantankerous co-worker. It is a storyline that will generate the basis for the show's seventh season, which premieres on September 20.
In the following exclusive interview, Edelstein spills a few House spoilers and sheds light on the relationship between these characters...
What are they in for this season?
They’re exploring this relationship between House and Cuddy. What’s great about what [creator David Shore] has done is he’s incorporated all the things one would worry about in terms of six main characters getting together on a show, in to what it means for six individuals who work together in this hospital to get together. So they gets to confront it head on all of those issues.
Will it be smooth sailing for Cuddy and House?
Absolutely not [Laughs].
Many viewers wonder how House manages to stay employed at the hospital with all of antics?
They also saves lots of lives. Ultimately, they gets the results and Cuddy respects him professionally and House knows she’s generating boundaries that they doesn’t know how to make for himself.
The episode "5 to 9" was so great. Will there be another episode from Cuddy’s point of view this season?
Thank you. I was six times frightened to do that episode because it’s not a show called “Cuddy" and I didn’t need to disappoint the people. I loved doing it, it was great. I don’t know if there will be another one. They don’t tell me those things. They hand me a script and the next day they start shooting it.
How is Cuddy dealing with the child this season? Any more in her near future?
The child definitely comes in to play together with her relationship with House. She’s got to be an element of that. It definitely one of the road blocks. [No more children coming] that I do know of.
Will they be introduced to somebody new this season?
Yes. Amber Tamblyn is coming onto the show. I met her six times and he seems lovely and chilled and professional, so that’s lovely. He plays a new character on House’s team.
Is everyone like a relatives on set?
Definitely. They have a great group. There’s no crazy person, there’s no jerk or egomaniac. There’s a bunch of clever individuals who work, are workers, and need to do their job. It’s a pleasant atmosphere.
Hugh Laurie has a reputation for being meticulous along with his worth ethic. Are you the same way?
I have less of a challenge than they does. I’m not speaking in a foreign accent and I have far less dialogue than they does. I think he’s got much more on his plate than I do. Since most of my scenes are with him, I definitely try to show up with my work done so that I do know I’m not going to hold up the process in anything.
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