The producers behind the psychological thriller Black Swan appear to be working overtime on making sure their ballet movie will appeal to the male demographic. For starters, there isn’t a single ugly duckling in the film’s female cast.
Directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain, Pi) , Swan stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, and now Kristina Anapau as dancers competing to land a role in their company’s production of “Swan Lake.” Uh-oh, am I losing you guys again? Well, the movie also includes a nasty little sex scene between Portman and Kunis. Ah … you’re back.
Kristina Anapau plays Russian dancer and soloist Galina in the movie. Black Swan is currently shooting in New York.
Up next for Anapau is the werewolf horror-comedy First Howl. She can also be seen in the 2005 Wes Craven chiller Cursed.
The Yen Press has announced the launch of a new Japanese manga series based on author Cecily Von Ziegesar bestselling Gossip Girl books. Written and illustrated by HyeKyung Baek, Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only will re-imagine Ziegesar’s storylines and focus on two of it’s lead bitches: Blair Waldorf and Vanessa Abrams.
The Gossip Girl books—13 in all—follow the backstabbing adventures of troubled teen girls at an elite private high school in New York. The CW Television Network adapted the first novel in the series to produce the hit show “Gossip Girl,” now on its third season.
Kurt Hassle, publishing director for Yen Press, says:
There are few series in the publishing world that have been as impactful or successful as Cecily von Ziegesar’s GOSSIP GIRL. The novels have captured the imaginations of young women around the world, and we look forward to demonstrating with GOSSIP GIRL: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY that graphic novels as a medium can be just as welcoming to girls as it is to boys.
Especially, if the girls are down with tentacle rape!
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I kid. Tentacle rape is only found in hentai. However, manga can be pretty racy and, judging this book by its cover, I’d say we’re finally gonna see some hot snooty beyotches get owned!
Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only debuts in January. It will be published monthly.
I’m not certain how you’re supposed to distinguish between the outfit Mickey Rourke wears in Iron Man 2 and what he wears out on the town on any given day, but I’m assured that what you see here on this poster is Rourke done up as Tony Stark’s Russian nemesis Ivan Vanko, aka Whiplash.
The synopsis for Iron Man 2 reads:
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the highly anticipated sequel to the blockbuster film based on the legendary Marvel Super Hero “Iron Man”, reuniting director Jon Favreau and Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr. In Iron Man 2, the world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James “Rhodey” Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new forces.
I don’t rock and roll every night and I don’t party every day, but I do surf the web night and day looking for interracial porn and deals on electronics. And, that’s exactly how I came across the new music video “Modern Day Delilah” from heavy metal grandpas Kiss.
The video starts off with a tip of the hat to old Godzilla movies—or possibly the Stones (“Love is Strong”)—before getting down to what the band does best: performance. Man, it’s good to see these guys can still rock out, swing from the rafters, and spit blood … although at their age that could just be tuberculosis.
Check out the video:
Kiss are currently touring in support of their new disc Sonic Boom.
Director Ti West (House of the Devil) has got some big eyebrows to fill. His new film Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever is the sequel to Eli Roth’s gleefully gross, flesh-eating-virus frightener Cabin Fever. Released in 2003, Fever marked Roth’s directorial debut and quickly established him as the new face of horror, a distinction he would go on to cement with 2005’s sleeper hit Hostel.
West, however, is no slouch. The young director has been generating a good amount of buzz for his satanic chiller House of the Devil and, judging by this just-released trailer, proves to be just as sick as Roth. Check it out:
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever arrives on DVD and Blu–ray disc on Feb. 16 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Bonus features include audio commentary, gag reel, and a BTS featurette. An unrated version of the film will also be released.
This is the first official poster for Warner Bros. upcoming remake of the 1981 fantasy-adventure Clash of the Titans. I don’t about you, but the sight of Medusa on this one sheet makes me hard. Well played Warner Bros. Well played.
Clash of the Titans is directed by Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk) and stars Sam Worthington (Avatar, Terminator: Salvation) as Perseus, Liam Neeson (After.Life, Batman Begins) as Zeus, and Ralph Fiennes (Harry Potter, Red Dragon) as Hades, lord of the underworld. The film arrives in theaters on March 26, 2010.
It’s time to grab your studs and dust off the old denim vest. Lionsgate Home Entertainment has set a March 2 release date for the special edition DVD reissue of the 1986 hard rock road-rager The Wraith, starring Charlie Sheen, Randy Quaid, Clint Howard, and a very sexy pre-“Twin Peaks” Sherilyn Fenn.
The press release reads:
The Wraith, the cult classic starring Golden Globe® winner Charlie Sheen (TV’s “Spin City”), Academy Award® nominee Randy Quaid (The Last Detail, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, 1973) and Clint Howard (Frost/Nixon), comes to Special Edition DVD from Lionsgate this March.
The action-packed film tells the story of a mysterious figure seeking vengeance on a gang that’s been terrorizing a small town and includes music from some of Rock-n-Roll’s greatest legends including Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Robert Palmer and Billy Idol.
The Wraith: Special Edition DVD features fresh packaging and all new special features including audio commentary, interviews with writer/director Mike Marvin (Sunstorm) and Clint Howard along with a featurette on the Dodge M4S that was used in the film.
An interview with Clint Howard? You had me at Robert Palmer!
Twin Peaks
Lionsgate has priced The Wraith: Special Edition at $19.99, but I’m sure you’ll find it cheaper at Amazon or the local Best Buy.
The media was aflutter yesterday with reports that Megan Fox’s (Jennifer’s Body, Transformers) laptop had been hacked and that many of her nude personal photos had been leaked online. Turns out that pictures were fake; just photoshopped images of Fox done up by some crappy porn site. Thankfully, I only bought one case of Kleenex and half a gallon of Lubriderm at the Costco last night. Looks like being thrifty really paid off.
The photo is fake. Your boner is real.
So there you have it. The photos are fake. You can move on to the next story. Yup. Nothing to see here, folks. You can find some real Megan Fox semi-topless photos here. And, don’t forget to check her out in these half-naked shots.
Canadian auteur Vincenzo Natali, the writer/director of the 1997 indie-horror mind-fuck Cube, is back with a provocative new sci-fi/horror morality tale set in the cold world of genetics research. Splice stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as ambitious, albeit ethically-compromised, geneticists who find themselves in over their heads when they successfully splice human and animal DNA to create a hybrid female named Dren.
(To see more of Delphine Chanéac (she plays Dren), go here and here.)
The film makes its long-awaited U.S. debut on Jan. 22 at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah as part of the Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight Movie screenings.
In an exclusive Sundance Diary for Twitch, Natali describes his movie as:
… a meditation on the relationship between creature and creators. The story revolves around two brilliant geneticists who create hybrid organisms spliced from the genes of various animals. Their research has medical applications, and being young and adventurous, they target the top of the food chain: human DNA. Needless-to-say, mayhem ensues. But what makes SPLICE unique is that the true nature of the horror is emotional. And the ties that bind the scientists to their manufactured offspring is familial.
It is fusion of these two strands of cinematic DNA: creature feature and relationship story, that excited me about SPLICE. It’s also what made it a very hard film to finance.
Natali has been trying to get Splice made for nearly a decade. Budgeting issues and concern over the movie’s controversial themes had kept the project grounded. Natali writes:
Studios (and believe me, I met with every one them) were uncomfortable with the bizarre love triangle that formed the core of the story. And yet given the cost of creating Dren, a creature who we watch grow from a single cell to a fully mature adult, SPLICE was never going to be a low budget affair. Most of my ten years seeking this personal grail was spent on my knees. Begging for money.
It was only when Gaumont (France’s oldest film studio) showed interest that I dared to believe SPLICE would really become more than a script gathering dust in my office. It probably helps that the French are not squeamish about sex, and when confronted with human-hybrid relations… pourquoi pas? Add to that the involvement of the ubiquitous and magnificent Guillermo Del Toro, who championed the film in the States, and my extraordinary producer Steve Hoban along with Telefilm Canada, and I had an unholy trifecta of passion from across the globe, without which the impossible would never have been possible.
Guillermo del Toro, who serves as executive producer on the film, sums things up this way:
Vincenzo is taking Splice to really edgy places. He understands that true horror needs to be morally dangerous.
This is Natalie Portman on the set of director Darren Aronofsky upcoming supernatural thriller Black Swan. Portman plays a ballet dancer named Nina caught up in a bitter rivalry with another dancer, played by Mila Kunis, who may not be all she seems.
The movie has generated a lot of buzz due to a reportedly graphic sex scene between Portman and Kunis. The film co-stars Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Sebastian Stan, and Vincent Cassel.
The pictures aren’t too exciting, but I know you guys like masturbating looking at Natalie Portman so here you go:
