There is now doubt that the new season of “Two and a Half Men” is well underway.
The story line has been updated to kill off write out Charlie Sheen’s character.
Advertising posters have been updated showing Ashton Kutcher in his new role.
Scripts are being written and rewritten.
Story lines are being developed and set changes and adaptions are underway.
Wardrobe is busy creating new costumes and set decorators are updating the sound-stage.
And to show the public that things are moving forward at full speed, CBS and Warner Bros. has released new artwork showing the new cast.
The “Curtain Shot” above was used for previous seasons and has been updated to show the new cast changes and a maturing Angus T. Jones.
The sound stage art has been updated to remove Sheen’s picture.
The half-naked shirtless picture of Angus T. Jones, Kutcher and veteran Jon Cryer was release last month hailing the new season starting September 19th.
TMZ grabbed a picture of Kutcher’s new colossal two story trailer parked outside the sound stage.
Almost as big as some peoples house, it will be were the actor cools down during rehearsals and grabs a little rest when not needed on the set.
We can’t wait to watch the first new show and see how poor Uncle Charley met his end.
We are also looking forward to a new set of “Two and a Half Men” blooper and gag reels shot during filming the new season as we hear Ashton is a blast to work with and crazy funny while on set.
Godspeed Chuck Lorre. Take your time and do it justice.
Well, it sounds like the whole gang of judges will be returning for season 11 of American Idol.
We knew Steven Tyler was under a multi-year contract, and Randy Jackson has already told the media he would be back, and we all knew Ryan Seacrest wasn't going anywhere.
The only hold-out seemed to be Jennifer Lopez.
She had recently told reporters that she was “on the fence” about returning for season 11 and had not made up her mind yet saying,
"I had an amazing time doing it and I loved it, but I have a lot of other things happening, and it's going to come down to making a choice of really what I want to do for the next year. We're not really at the breaking point of 'You have to make a decision right now!' So I'm not.”
But today, E! News Online is reporting that Lopez will be making an announcement as soon as this week that she will be returning as a judge on American Idol season 11.
That’s good news.
Jennifer was a great addition as was Steven Tyler, and losing her after just a year would have been a blow to the show.
Some insiders say she was holding out for more money – asking for $20 million per season instead of her $12 million she got her first year.
But all you have to do is look at her schedule to see that this woman is as busy as it gets and fitting Idol into her schedule really is going to be difficult.
Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony are producing a Latin American singing competition show called Que Viva that has consumed a great amount of her time this summer.
She has also just been cast alongside Cameron Diaz in the romantic comedy “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”.
The movie is scheduled to start filming in 2011 with a 2012 Mother’s Day release date and will follow the lives of four couples as they prepare to become parents.
Lopez is also currently filming the animated comedy “Ice Age: Continental Drift” with Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Aziz Ansari, and comedian Wanda Sykes.
The movie is currently being filmed and has a projected release date of July 13, 2012. Plot details are top secret but producers have released the following “Ice Age 4” trailer.
Watch Ice Age Continental Drift Movie Trailer
And if those projects aren’t enough to keep J-Lo busy she is also preparing to star alongside Jason Statham in the movie “Parker” - a crime thriller centered on a thief who lives by a code of honor that includes never stealing money from people who need it.
While "Parker", with a $25 million production budget is still in pre-production, it is slated for release sometime on 2012 which means Lopez will need to find time over the next 10 months for filming.
And don't forget, Lopez also has a very active singing career going full tilt.
Whew… Now I can see why she was on the fence!
We’re glad she decided to come back for another season of American Idol and look forward to another year as exciting as last year’s revamped improvement.
Sometimes he just doesn’t know when to stop talking.
For years, Hollywood bad boy Shia has had a problem with cops, booze, women, co-stars, gay slurs, moonshine, and directors – and now he has opened up to Details Magazine, and somebody should have stopped him.
His latest flick, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is out and the initial response is positive – even as others feel the franchise has become a bit stale and unbelievable.
And once again the young action hero finds himself in hot water after running his mouth.
But let’s start at the beginning.
A few years ago, Shia made news for entering a Walgreens drugstore sloppy drunk at 3:00 in the morning and trying to buy cigarettes. He was arrested.
Next was a car accident that badly mangled his hand and fingers that caused a delay in the filming schedule. The injury was ultimately written into the script so filming could continue.
Then it was a well-publicized incident at a Brite Spot Family Restaurant after a fan wanted to take his picture and he said “no”. It ended with Shia on the sidewalk in handcuffs.
"I'm not coming back to do another one. I don't think director Michael Bay will either. It's still a hot property, I think, especially coming out of the third one. So I imagine they'll reboot it at some point with someone else."
After completing the third sequel, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”, LaBeouf is distancing himself from the popular series.
Next were his comments about his co-star Megan Fox.
LaBeouf dumped on her acting abilities and staying power in a male dominated Hollywood and ruffling a few feathers by saying,
"Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment stuff that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael. He films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It’s summer. It’s Michael’s style. And I think Megan Fox never got comfortable with it. This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it.”
Ouch. You would think by these statements the two most definitely DO NOT get along.
But you would be wrong.
When asked by a Details editor about the possibility of him hooking up with Fox he said,
“Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing, and I think you can see the chemistry onscreen.”
The problem?
At the time Shia was on set filming “Transformers”, Fox was dating Brian Austin Green.
Awkward? You bet.
When asked about the possible conflict of interest Shia responded,
“I don’t know, man. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I Don’t know…. It was what it was.”
Running into rough patches with co-starts is not new for the actor.
After a lukewarm reception for his performance in “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull” with superstar Harrison Ford, Shia admits he was not up to par during filming and also criticized the film in the press.
Harrison Ford remembers it a bit differently saying,
"I think I told him he was a f##king idiot. As an actor, I think it's my obligation to support the film without making a complete ass of myself. Shia is ambitious, attentive, and talented—and he's learning how to deal with a situation which is very unique and difficult."
And he seems to be learning well.
In fact, he has just completed filming his latest movie “The Wettest Country in the World” a crime-drama centered on a family of Depression-era bootleggers in the American South and due in theaters next year.
We also hear there may be another chance for LaBeouf to get it right in a new “Indiana Jones”, and we’re sure there will be a “Wall Street” sequel in a year or two.
This is what we like to see – a Hollywood action hero who acts like one in real life and doesn’t take nothing from nobody.
"I'm not coming back to do another one. I don't think director Michael Bay will either. It's still a hot property, I think, especially coming out of the third one. So I imagine they'll reboot it at some point with someone else."
After completing the third sequel, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”, LaBeouf is distancing himself from the popular series.
But he thinks “Dark of the Moon”, where the Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets, is the best of all the films.
Shia was very vocal about the second sequel "Revenge of the Fallen" saying,
"When I saw the second movie, I wasn't impressed with what we did. There were some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone."
Ouch. Not good when your big star doesn’t like the way things turned out. And to add insult to injury superhot Megan Fox will not be in this latest sequel which LaBeouf seems to think is a good thing.
"Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment stuff that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael. He films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It’s summer. It’s Michael’s style. And I think Megan Fox never got comfortable with it. This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it.”
But don’t feel bad for LaBeouf – he is doing plenty well for himself these days.
The actor has had a string of smash hits since his awkward teen years on the television show “Even Stevens” including roles in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Battle of Shaker Heights, I, Robot, Disturbia, Eagle Eye, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Between his role in Indiana Jones and Wall Street he has been able to inject himself into two of the largest movie concepts of all time – and there is plenty of room for sequels for both of those franchises.
Shia also just completed work alongside Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy in “The Wettest County in the World” - a crime-drama centered on a family of Depression-era bootleggers in the American South.
“Wettest” is due to hit theaters sometime in 2012.
And on top of all that, there is rumor that a new “Indiana Jones” is in the works. Shia could take on the legacy of that franchise and milk it for the next twenty years if he wanted to.
So all is good, and the Transformers probably need to come to end anyway.
Okay, every now and then a movie comes along that we can’t exactly categorize – or understand.
In fact, we’re shocked that a movie like this could actually be released - much less filmed and edited with a straight face.
“The Human Centipede II – Full Sequence”, written and direct by Tom Six, is the follow-up to the original “Human Centipede” released in 2009.
For those of you who have never heard of it – consider yourself lucky. Most movie goers had not heard of it until Matt Stone and Trey Parker did a spoof about it on South Park last month.
The concept is simple, yet repulsive.
A demented surgeon finds three unwilling victims and surgically attaches them end to end – mouth to anus, turning them into a Siamese Trio – the human centipede.
Seriously. We’re not making this up.
The trailer below is from the first film and will go a long way in helping you understand the basic concept. We’ll wait…. Go ahead… watch it..
Were we right?
Now that you understand the rudimentary premise of the first movie we can move on to the troubles Mr. Six is facing in Britain with regards to his sequel.
“The Human Centipede II – Full Sequence” supposedly follows another demented surgeon who became sexually obsessed with the original movie.
He proceeds to replicate the Siamese trio just as in the original movie but with twelve people instead of three – and he adds one special demented twist.
His goal is to exploit his new creation sexually, and explore the concepts of sex, fantasy, pain, pleasure, and release with his new creation(s).
It’s really hard to wrap your head around isn't it?
Below is the movie trailer Six released last year promoting Centipede II. While not graphic in detail it doesn’t really reveal any plot, but the message seems to be clear - it will be “the sickest movie of all time.”
But Mr. Six has run into a big problem.
It seems the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has ruled no amount of cuts, redaction, or editing would allow them to give the new film a certificate of release and said it may violate the Obscene Publications Act.
They went on to say,
“The potentially obscene Human Centipede sequel poses risk of harm to viewers. There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalized, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience.”
This may well prevent the film from ever seeing the light of day in Europe.
But what about the United States?
The U.S. has a habit of following along with the BBFC in its development of the United States MPAA rating. (Motion Picture Association of America)
The original film was given a MPAA rating of “R” which allowed it to be shown in American theaters. But if the MPAA can’t, or won’t rate the sequel, then it cannot be shown in the U.S.
We think that is a good thing. This is not really the kind of movie we want playing at the Mall on Saturday afternoon anyway. Our kids have enough to deal with already and we don’t need to plant any more bizarre ideas in their tiny little heads.
InfoStar says – Keep Centipede II away from the U.S.
And to start things off this month is the great looking flick “Super 8” and a new movie trailer.
Think “Cloverfield” meets area 51.
In fact, the original screenplay was developed to be the sequel to “Cloverfield”, so you can do the math on what to expect - serious science fiction and inhuman things.
Usually we can tell by the movie trailer if we think a film is going to be any good, and all we can say about the “Super 8” trailer is this film is going to rock.
Not really a kid’s movie, but definitely a predominately teen kid cast – but with very adult adventures.
The production values of this flick are undeniable because it was written and directed by J. J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg.
It stars the young Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, and Kyle Chandler, and has Spielberg’s trademark all over it.
The story goes like this – a group of kids are playing around with their super 8 movie camera when they witness a train derailment.
It turns out to be a deliberate derailment of a United States Air Force train named "Groom Lake One", which was transporting undisclosed materials from Area 51 to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
After the wreck, some unknown entity escapes from one of the cargo cars and begins to cause havoc on the small town of Lillian, Ohio.
Suddenly, the military and other spooky looking Government suits start showing up and taking over.
All the dogs in town run away and strange things start happening all over.
There are disappearances, unexplained events, and eight missing people. The local sheriff investigates the cause of the events which leads to the discovery of something inhuman.
And the kids have it all on Super 8 video….
The budget for "Super 8" was a modest $45 million and is due in theaters and IMAX June 11th.
