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Today on Howard Stern, Olivia Wilde was in studio to promote her role on HBO's Vinyl and in the process provided lots of juicy tidbits, including the fact that at age 28 she was deemed "too old" for the role eventually played by Margot Robbie in Martin Scorsese's 2013 hit The Wolf of Wall Street (!). Also: why she wasn't "totally surprised" that Cowboys and Aliens flopped, what about her role on House makes her cringe, how Chris Farley brightened her day as a young girl and which of her former projects she hates the most. Check out 10 9 major highlights below. 1. She was deemed "too old" for the role of Jordan Belfort's wife in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. Wilde, then 28, auditioned for the role of Naomi Lapaglia in Scorsese's Oscar-nominated film but was told she was too "sophisticated" for the character -- a note she eventually found out was code for "old.

Katie Holmes arrived in style for the inaugural luncheon of the Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program in NYC on Monday. The actress smiled big for the cameras and posed for photos with Olivia Wilde and Glamour editor in chief Cynthia Leive. Later, Katie met up with Patricia Clarkson, who she starred alongside in 2003's Pieces of April. Katie has been taking the Big Apple by storm! Just last week, Katie pulled double duty and turned heads at two high-profile events, the 2015 Skin Cancer Foundation gala and Fashion Group International's Night of Stars. Keep reading to see the best moments from Katie's outing.

Organisers at the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) announced the complete line-up of 450 films from 92 countries on Wednesday. The festival runs from May 14-June 7.

The Overnight starring Jason Schwartzman will close the event and as previously announced Spy (pictured) with Melissa McCartney will kick off proceedings. Kevin Bacon will receive career achievement in acting award.

“This year’s festival is bigger and more international than ever, with a record 92 countries represented,” said Siff artistic director Carl Spence. “Adding to our diverse international line-up is our new programme, Culinary Cinema, which features 11 fantastic new films.

“And I’m particularly excited to welcome Kevin Bacon as this year’s Tribute Guest – Siff will now be only one-degree of separation away!”

Galas and premieres include Max Landis’ directorial debut Me Him Her, Chris Evans in Before We Go, Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segal in the Centerpiece Gala End Of The Tour . Inside Out, Mr. Holmes and [link...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack may be massively popular all over the globe, but it's always set my teeth on edge. As it happens, I know why this is the case – it can be traced all the way back to 1994 when I'd just started university. The girl in the campus room above happened to be a fan of Rocky Horror and would play the wretched thing over and over until the tape became time warped. And to that day, whenever a Rocky Horror song has come on the radio or TV, I've mentally ground my teeth till there's nothing left but gum.

Living Conditions sees Buffy continuing her mission to try and settle down into college life. While it's a smoother ride than her first days in The Freshman , her growing conflict with Kathy is still making college a bit of a chore. It seems that no matter how hard she tries,...

Is Scarlett Johansson a hero or villain? This week, she's both: The actress does double duty, saving the world in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and consuming it in Under the Skin. Which performance reigns supreme? Plus, is Jude Law's crime caper Dom Hemingway going to steal your heart? Here's what to see and what to skip in theaters this weekend. See ThisCaptain America: The Winter Soldier var brightcovevideoid = '3426797509001'; With pirates on the seas, weapons in the skies and a raging liberty vs. security debate, The Winter Soldier should feel unsettlingly familiar. Gone are the aliens and the Tesseract,...

Natasha Romanoff, aka the Black Widow, is back and, trust us, Scarlett Johansson isn't complaining about it.  The 29-year-old ingenue is playing the super spy with a dark past for the third time and in the third different franchise in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," Johansson actually has another movie opening on April 4 (although in limited release), Jonathan Glazer's acclaimed mini-masterpiece "Under the Skin" The two movies could no be more different from each other if you tried.  "Winter Soldier" is a superhero thriller with political undertones to modern day concerns over the Nsa.  "Skin," on the other hand, is one of the most daring art films to challenge audiences this century.   Asked if she considers movies like "Skin" (and to a lesser extent "Her") a break from big studio productions, Johansson insists her work in the Marvel universe isn't that different from an art house indie. "I have...

Ahhhh! Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week is underway in NYC, and like every year, every aspect of fashion is represented, from the sublime to the …

Fashion Week is always celebrity-laden, and the first few days have been hunk-heavy, with appearances by Zachary Quinto, Kellan Lutz, Colton Haynes, and many more, which is fitting considering the models have been especially shirt-free this year.

Get ready to live vicariously!

The post Eye Candy! Fashion Week Gets Underway With Skin And Stars appeared first on thebacklot.com.

Shay is showing off her new metallic mani in an Insta pic she posted on August 22. The star’s nails are a fresh new take on the ombre nail — and we love it! Read on for how you can get her exact mani!

There is nothing more fun then a new manicure, and this week, we would like to shine the spotlight on Pretty Little Liars actress Shay Mitchell and her unique new mani. Using three different polishes and a nail brush, Shay was able to transform her nails into an artistic masterpiece. Despite the many materials, achieving this look is actually simpler than it seems. Keep reading for the scoop on how you can get nails exactly like Shay!

Ombre Nails — How To Get Shay Mitchell’s Metallic Manicure

The Canadian actress always has the hottest manis around — and this time she really nailed it! On August 22, Shay took...

Jen looked nothing short of luminous at the German premiere of her latest movie. Want to get a glow like Jen’s? It’s easier than you think!

Jennifer Aniston, 44, always looks like a million bucks even when she’s not wearing makeup! So we were hardly surprised that she looked amazing when she showed up to the German premiere of her latest movie We’re The Millers in Berlin on August 15. And while it was a given that Jen would look great, we still couldn’t believe how fabulous her glowing skin looked.

Jennifer Aniston’s Glowing Skin — How To Get Her Look

Like we said, Jen pretty much always looks fantastic — seriously, can you even think of a time in the past decade when she’s looked even a little sub-par? Us neither. So when she hit the red carpet on August 15 we were, of course, smitten with her look.

After Chief Keef threatened to assault Katy Perry on Twitter for insulting his new song ‘I Hate Being Sober,’ the ‘Wide Awake’ singer apologized on her social media account. Do you think Katy should have had to apologize?

Katy Perry, 28, was hoping that Chief Keef, 17, would forgive her after she openly dissed his new song on Twitter. Even though Chief said that Katy could “Suck Skin Off Of my D**k,” and he’d “Smack The S**t out her” for hating on his song “I Hate Being Sober,” Katy still apologized.

Katy Perry Apologizes To Chief Keef — ‘I Hate Being Sober’ Diss Not Personal

Before Katy apologized, Chief Keef threatened to write a song about her. He tweeted, “New Song Katy Perry Coming Soon.”

Anyone who’s followed one of Taylor Swift’s relationships knows that having a song written about you can be very unfortunate. Clearly, Katy, one of Taylor’s BFFs,...

After Katy insulted the rapper’s new song, Chief Keef took to Twitter to harshly slam Katy for her comment! Read on to find out what he said.

Another day, another Twitter feud. On May 21, Katy Perry, 28, dissed Chief Keef‘s song “Hate Being Sober” on Twitter, and Chief Keef fired back with some pretty violent threats!

The Chief Keef & Katy Perry Twitter Feud

On May 21, Katy tweeted, “Just heard a new song on the radio called ‘I hate being sober’ I now have serious doubt for the world.”

The “Wide Awake” singer’s tweet obviously offended Chief Keef, because he posted, “Dat b**h Katy Perry Can Suck Skin Off Of my D**k.”

But he wasn’t finished with his attack, he added, “Ill Smack The S**t out her.”

He ended his Twitter rant by saying, “New Song Katy Perry Coming Soon.”

Chief Keef Arrested For Disorderly...

The star exuded effortless glamour in a gorgeous gown, stealing the spotlight on the red carpet at the La premiere! Did you love her latest look as much as we did?

Olivia Wilde looked premiere perfect when she hit the red carpet with her co-stars at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone premiere on Mar. 11, where she dazzled in a shimmering, black Gucci gown. While the 29-year-old is beautiful, I really miss seeing her show-stopping, red carpet style — but it’s finally back!

Olivia wowed in a Gucci Pre-Fall 2013 gown for the occasion. The black frock featured a netted overlay with an embroidered neckline. The open back detailing allowed the star to show some skin while wavy tresses and dramatic, smoky eyes finished off the red carpet look. A pair of platform Charlotte Olympia pumps and jewelry by Rona Pfeiffer and Ef Collection added the finishing touches.

Super sexy Hollywood actress Olivia Wilde is spicing up the cover of ‘Marie Claire’ she looks gorgeous! The hot new April issue is set to hit newsstands on March 19.

When she’s not dissing Justin Bieber, Olivia Wilde is giving the world something to talk about! The star poses on the cover of Marie Claire‘s April issue in a sheer blue dress complimented by a sexy, wavy hairstyle. The actress opens up to the magazine about her relationship with Saturday Night Live star Jason Sudeikis and even plans of having children in the future.

Olivia Wilde & Jason Sudeikis — Their Fairytale Relationship

Marie Claire captures the fairytale story of Olivia and Jason from the very beginning as the actress relieves her insecurities when she originally began to date the star.

Oliva confessed the details of her first date with the Saturday Night Live stud.

“I thought, ‘I’m not beautiful enough or his type.

When I first saw The Avengers on the big screen I worried if it could be as large and as magnificent on the smaller screen. Few blockbuster films had achieved such success in creating a fun experience and the size of screen help sell audiences on the Marvel Universe gone wild. But believe me, true believers, if you have a tricked out home theater this is one of the essential blu-ray purchases you’ll make this year.

The Avengers accomplished Marvel Studios’ Phase I in spades. It collected all of these larger than life characters established in other films, and put them on a bigger stage against more unimaginable villains for the big screen. They used the solo films to develop these characters and then brought the all-star cast together to accomplish a few more goals–besides making gobs of money, that is: 1) To kick cinema ass. 2) Expand the horizons...

Day two of the New York City Horror Film Festival came and went with no road bumps this time thankfully, as I was able to enjoy the night’s lineup without any delays, along with a special guest appearance by horror icon Rob Zombie, but I’ll touch on that experience later and save the love here for another fantastic night of short films. Teddy bears, talking vegetables, cannibalism – what wasn’t there to love?

The Captured Bird

Director: Jovanka Vuckovic

Isn’t it great when a little piece of cinema comes along and just makes your skin crawl, especially when it’s backed by the likes of Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, and Mick Garris? That’s what The Captured Bird brilliantly accomplishes, telling a short story about a tiny child’s encounter with a haunted mansion and five freakish demons birthed from black sludge, along with being...

It's been more than a year since Fox debuted "The Chicago Code," which was the most recent show in an unfortunate but amusing tradition of shows promoted relentlessly with the same shouted line in every promo. Before Jennifer Beals was asked, incredulously, "You think you can change how things get done In Chicago?!?!," Ron Silver tried to warn his daughter in "Skin" that "His father is The District Attorney!," while the first "House" promos had House complaining to Cuddy, "You're risking A Patient's Life!" Many of these shows have been good, but it's just too easy to remember the one loud...

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

There’s no denying it, The Change-Up isn’t exactly the height of cinematic art. Instead, it does exactly what it says on the tin and entertains… Released on Triple Play Blu-Ray and DVD today, check out our review below.

Growing up together, Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) and Dave (Jason Bateman) were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they’ve slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch has remained a single, quasi-employed man-child who has never met a responsibility he liked. To Mitch, Dave has it all: beautiful wife Jamie (Leslie Mann), kids who adore him and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. To Dave, living Mitch’s stress-free life without obligation or consequence is a world away from his sensible, settled lifestyle. Following a drunken night out together, Mitch and Dave’s worlds...

Roosevelt Asylum, Rockford, Illinois: some teens break into an asylum and the police are called out. One of them talks about the legend which states the place is haunted by the ghosts of patients... "If you spend the night, the spirits will drive you insane." They split up, Walter Kelly's (Peter benson III) flashlight conks out. Later at home, Kelly shoots his wife and himself. Sam (Jared Padalecki) thinks Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is in California, he calls Caleb but he's not heard from him. There's nothing in the journal, at least nothing that Dean (Jensen Ackles) can make out, "I love the guy, but I swear he writes like freakin' Yoda." Well Yoda never wrote a thing. Sam thinks they should call the police and file a missing persons report. Dean thinks he'd freak and Sam doesn't care. He should have been in Kansas but wasn't. Sam: "he could...

Couldn't make it to San Diego this year? No worries - that's why we're here.

The experience at Comic-Con is different for everyone -- even every reporter -- so instead of just running through the straightforward movie-related highlights, we thought we'd give you a little more color and share some of our favorite moments.

Andrew Garfield starting an answering service? Check! Kristen Stewart talking about Taylor Lautner's booty shakin'? Double check! Seeing unexpected parts of Colin Farrell and Jason Momoa? Oh, yeah, it happened.

The Honeymoon in 'Breaking Dawn' Looks Hawt

Seeing Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner trading quips was indeed a treat, but it was the lengthy clip from Bella and Edward's honeymoon in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" that really had the fans squealing. From Edward carrying his bride over the threshold and awkward looks exchanged bedside to the newlyweds individually stripping down,...

Superheroes are packing audiences into cinemas this summer. Rob looks at ten other comic book characters that deserve a break on the big screen…

With X-Men: First Class gaining fantastic reviews, Thor surprisingly well received, Green Lantern arriving today, Captain America ready and waiting just around the corner, and Spider-Man, The Avengers, Superman and the final Nolan-influenced Batman tempting us next year, the big names of the comics scene are once again packing audiences into the cinemas.

As such, the archives are being raided for other property’s characters and ideas to translate to film. But is this the best way of getting fan favourite characters onto cinema screens? The masses aren’t going to be queuing around the block to see ‘Aquaman the movie’, meaning that second string or lower tier characters, no matter how visually fantastic or exciting (actually, Aquaman is neither of these things) will see the light of cinema interiors,...

You ever heard the term "Save the best for last?" Well, that perfectly exemplifies the MTV Movie Awards.  The Oscars, The Golden Globes, The SAG Awards, The DGA Awards.  You know why those award shows occur towards the beginning of the year?  Because they don't mean squat.  I mean, any award show that doesn't occur halfway through the year is just culturally inferior, right?  And who would you rather trust: A bunch of old people in suits, or a 14 year old with a laptop?  Yeah, that's what I thought.  So if you want to hear from the generation that Matters, check out a list of winners after the jump.

Okay guys, the idiots who actually voted for this dreck are gone now (there 2 minute attention spam has ran out).  You can come back out now.

Best Movie

Nominees: Black Swan

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I

Inception

The Social Network...

Originally published June 2, 2011. Updated June 6, 2011 with results.

In the months leading up to the Academy Awards, the interwebs are flooded with pundit predictions on which films and folks will win the coveted Oscar.

Yet for the MTV Movie Awards? Zero. Zilch. Nada.

So taking a cue from our friends at Gold Derby, we enlisted a panel of experts to predict the winners in each of the 12 categories.

In a panel where quite nobly, no predictor took the easy route (read: picked "Twilight" in every category), it was a tight race, with a four-way tie for the top spot. Without further ado, the results:

7 Picks: Jordan Hoffman (Ugo), Eric Larnick (Moviefone), Tom O'Neil (Gold Derby), Kevin Polowy (NextMovie)

6 Picks: Aimee Carlson (Myspace), Erik Davis (Movies.com), Jen Yamato (Movieline)

4 Picks: Dave Karger (Entertainment Weekly), Mike Sampson (JoBlo), Susan Wloszczyna (USA Today)

3 Picks: Sean Phillips (Yahoo! Movies)

2 Picks: Anne Thompson (indieWire)

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The Breaking Dawn duo of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson led a Twilight night at last night’s MTV Move Awards, winning best actress and actor honors respectively, as well as landing and continuing the franchise’s streak in the Best Kiss category. While the final chapter of Twilight, Breaking Dawn, is yet to come, the previous chapter, New Moon, took home hardware for director David Slade. Pattinson also shared the Best Fight award for Eclipse, for his battle with Bryce Dallas Howard.

Jason Sudeikis hosted the night’s ceremonies and below is a list of the nominees with the rest of the winners highlighted.

Best Movie (voting stays live throughout the 2011 Movie Awards ceremony)

Black Swan

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Inception

The Social Network

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Best Female Performance

Emma Stone – Easy A (Sony Pictures)

Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1...

Another year, another terrible MTV Movie Awards. "Twilight" once again won most of the awards, including Best Movie, but this time, the show reached an all-time low. The Best Jaw-Dropping Moment category included such scenes as James Franco cutting off his arm in "127 Hours," Steve-o getting a face full of human waste in "Jackass 3D," Natalie Portman pulling off the skin of her finger in "Black Swan," Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page sitting as Paris explodes and folds on itself in "Inception," and Justin Bieber singing in "Never Say Never." And Justin Bieber won. Check out the rest of the "winners" below. Best Movie: * The Twilight Saga: Eclipse * Black Swan * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 * Inception * The Social Network Best Female Performance: * Kristen Stewart . The Twilight Saga: Eclipse * Emma Stone . Easy A * Emma Watson . Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 * Jennifer Aniston . Just Go With It...

Best Movie

"Black Swan"

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1"

"Inception"

"The Social Network"

"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" -- Winner!

Best Comedic Performance

Adam Sandler, "Just Go With It"

Ashton Kutcher, "No Strings Attached"

Emma Stone, "Easy A" -- Winner!

Russell Brand, "Get Him to the Greek"

Zach Galifianakis, "Due Date"

Best Female Performance

Emma Stone, "Easy A"

Emma Watson, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1"

Jennifer Aniston, "Just Go With It"

Kristen Stewart,...

MTV has announced full nominations for the 2011 MTV Movie Awards. "The Twilight Saga's Eclipse" gets the most nods for being nominated in 8 categories this year. The vampire film franchise is up for such coveted categories as Best Movie, Best Fight and Best Kiss. The leading stars of the flick, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are nominated for Best Male Performance, while Kristen Stewart is nominated for Best Female Performance.

Following "Eclipse" as the major nominee is "Inception". The Christopher Nolan-directed movie has nabbed 7 categories, including Best Scared-As-Sh-- Performance and Best Fight. However, the science fiction flick has failed to bring their leading cast, Leonardo DiCaprio, to be nominated for the Best Male Performance.

Meanwhile, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" is the next who gets the most nominations by earning 6 noms. The Hogward wizard story also leads their main actor Daniel Radcliffe for Best Male Performance category,...

The most anti-climatic nominations ever! As expected The Twilight Saga has dominated the MTV Movie Award nominations yet again. 

This time The Twilight Sage: Eclipse scored a total of eight nominations, including best movie, best male performance for both Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, best kiss, and best female performance for Kristen Stewart.

Inception received six nominations, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 received five nominations, and The Social Network received four nominations.

Saturday Night Live's Jason Sudeikis will host the awards this year.

You can vote for your favorites starting now.

Check out the full list of nominees after the jump.

Best Movie

Black Swan

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I

Inception

The Social Network

Eclipse

Best Female Performance

Emma Stone, Easy A

Emma Watson, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I

Jennifer Aniston, Just Go With It

Kristen Stewart, Eclipse

Natalie Portman, Black Swan...

"The Twilight Saga's Eclipse" will fight it out with fellow multiple nominees "Inception" (seven), "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" (six), "The Social Network" (five) and "Black Swan" (four) for Best Movie.

"Twilight" hunks Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner have both earned nods for Best Male Performance, pitting them against Jesse Eisenberg ("The Social Network"), Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I") and Zac Efron ("Charlie St. Cloud"), while co-star Kristen Stewart will compete against the likes of Emma Watson ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I") and Oscar winner Natalie Portman ("Black Swan") in the Best Female Performance category.

The stars of the romantic vampire drama are also up for Best Fight and Best Kiss awards.

Teenage pop sensation Justin Bieber earns his first MTV Movie Award nomination - his appearance in concert film "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" is up for Best Jaw-Dropping Moment,...

'Eclipse,' 'Inception,' 'Harry Potter' lead the nods for the June 5 show, and voting is now open!

By MTV News staff

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"

Photo: Warner Bros.

The 2011 MTV Movie Awards nominations are in and now the power of the golden popcorn is yours! Starting on Tuesday (May 3) head over to MovieAwards.MTV.com to vote for a winner in every category, from Best Movie to Best Kiss to Best Jaw-Dropping Moment, through June 4. Voting for Best Movie, however, will stay open throughout the awards show itself — meaning you'll have a chance to affect the night's biggest prize until the very last minute.

Hosted by Jason Sudeikis, the 20th annual MTV Movie Awards air live on Sunday, June 5, at 9 p.m. Et, from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. So check out the full list...

'Eclipse,' 'Inception,' 'Harry Potter' lead the nods for the June 5 show, and voting is now open!

By MTV News staff

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1"

Photo: Warner Bros.

The 2011 MTV Movie Awards nominations are in and now the power of the golden popcorn is yours! Starting on Tuesday (May 3) head over to MovieAwards.MTV.com to vote for a winner in every category, from Best Movie to Best Kiss to Best Jaw-Dropping Moment, through June 4. Voting for Best Movie, however, will stay open throughout the awards show itself — meaning you'll have a chance to affect the night's biggest prize until the very last minute.

Hosted by Jason Sudeikis, the 20th annual MTV Movie Awards air live on Sunday, June 5, at 9 p.m. Et, from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. So check out the full list...

The day movie fans have long dreaded is finally here, because it's time to finally choose once and for all: "Twilight" or "Harry Potter?"

That's just one of the many difficult decisions in store for film buffs as MTV has announced the nominees for their annual Movie Awards, with "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" shockingly leading the nominations with eight gongs, followed by "Inception"'s seven and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1"'s six.

"The Social Network" and "Black Swan" join those three to vie for the Golden Popcorn in the Best Movie category.

Hosted by "Saturday Night Live" star Jason Sudeikis, the 20th annual MTV Movie Award will be aired live on MTV on Sunday, June 5, at 9 p.m. Et. Beginning today, though, fans have until June 3 to submit their votes in categories like "Best Jaw-Dropping Moment," "Best Line From a Movie" and, of course, "Best Kiss,...

Hot on the heels of the news that Gus Van Sant’s Restless will be opening Un Certain Regard at this year’s 64th Cannes Film Festival, comes the complete line up...

A press conference was called this morning in Paris to announce which films and their respective categories will be showcased next month.

Amongst the films In Competition are; Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain, and Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Other big names include; Pedro Almodovar, the Dardenne Brothers and Nicolas Winding Refn.

Joining the line-up for films Out of Competition are; Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson as a troubled man who finds solace in a puppet, and Jerry Bruckheimer’s Blockbuster adventure, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Up until today the festival had filtered out tidbits...

Richard Gant (ex-Russell, General Hospital) - 67

Shannon Tweed (ex-Savannah, Days Of Our Lives; ex-Diana, Falcon Crest) - 54

Maria Arena Bell (Executive Producer/Head Writer, The Young And The Restless) - 48

Jon Hamm (Don, Mad Men) - 40

Kathy Brier (ex-Marcie, One Life To Live) - 36

Jeff Branson (Ronan, The Young And The Restless; ex-Shayne, Guiding Light; ex-Jonathan, All My Children) - 34

Bree Turner (ex-Tina, Undressed) - 34

Jay Wilkinson (ex-Riley, One Life To Live) - 33

Olivia Wilde (ex-Jewel, Skin; ex-Alex, The O.C.) - 27...

Prom

Opens: April 29th 2011

Cast: Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, Danielle Campbell, Yin Chang

Director: Joe Nussbaum

Summary: Portrays the precarious passage from high school to independence as some relationships unravel and others ignite. For Nova Prescott, it’s a battle of wills as she finds herself drawn to the guy who gets in the way of her perfect prom. Others face all the insecurity and anticipation that surrounds one of high school’s most seminal events.

Analysis: Disney's attempt at creating the next "High School Musical" franchise for itself, this teen romantic comedy is a batch of clique cliches - the beauty queen, the rebel with better hair than anyone else in the film, the handsome yet dumb foreign exchange student, the 'so above it' geek who really wants to belong, and at least one or two 'fugly' girls.

It's all very "The Breakfast Club" meets "10 Things I Hate About...

What fabulous treatments are A-listers getting done to prepare for their close-up? I’ve got the scoop!

This Sunday is the Golden Globes, which means that the stars are racing to look their absolute best for all that red carpet coverage. When it comes to skincare, one celebrity destination stands above the rest for a serious awards show glow: Kate Somerville Skin Clinic. What are the nominees getting done to look HDTV hot? Read on!

Celebrity skincare guru Kate Somerville is renowned for her amazing gifts when it comes to making skin look its best and editors and celebs like nominee Lea Michele and other stars like Anna Paquin, Olivia Wilde, Kate Walsh, Debra Messing and Molly Sims rely on her secret weapon treatments to look positively amazing for awards-show season. The treatments the stars are getting done right now to prepare for this weekend’s broadcast are:

The Ultimate...

The Factory

Opens: 2011

Cast: John Cusack, Jennifer Carpenter, Ksenia Solo, Mae Whitman, Sonya Walger

Director: Morgan O'Neill

Summary: An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, New York. When his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any pretension and professional restraint he might have to get the killer.

Analysis: Shot almost three years ago now, Dark Castle had originally planned to release this thriller back in late 2009. However for reasons unspecified, it has been sitting on a shelf for some time and keeps getting delayed. In cases like these, the most obvious reason is usually the correct one - it stinks (eg. "Case 39"). The company certainly has had its fair share of box-office duds lately including "Whiteout," "Ninja Assassin," "The Losers," "Orphan" and "Splice".

Yet Cusack generally has good taste in projects, his last venture into horror was the surprisingly effective Stephen King...

The Factory

Opens: 2011

Cast: John Cusack, Jennifer Carpenter, Ksenia Solo, Mae Whitman, Sonya Walger

Director: Morgan O'Neill

Summary: An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, New York. When his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any pretension and professional restraint he might have to get the killer.

Analysis: Shot almost three years ago now, Dark Castle had originally planned to release this thriller back in late 2009. However for reasons unspecified, it has been sitting on a shelf for some time and keeps getting delayed. In cases like these, the most obvious reason is usually the correct one - it stinks (eg. "Case 39"). The company certainly has had its fair share of box-office duds lately including "Whiteout," "Ninja Assassin," "The Losers," "Orphan" and "Splice".

Yet Cusack generally has good taste in projects, his last venture into horror was the surprisingly effective Stephen King...

Catch .44

Opens: 2011

Cast: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll

Director: Aaron Harvey

Summary: The story focuses on three women being thrust into an extraordinary situation involving a psychopathic hitman, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.

Analysis: Oddly little is known about this indie crime comedy aside from the three lead female roles have gone through more than a couple of rounds of casting musical chairs. The likes of Maggie Grace, Kate Mara, Laura Ramsey, Sarah Roemer, Lizzy Caplan and Lauren German were all attached at one point or another before the final trio of Malin Akerman ("Watchmen"), Nikki Reed ("Twilight") and Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") were settled on.

Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Michael Rosenbaum and Brad Dourif also star with Willis as a crime boss behind everything that happens and Whitaker as a dangerously unstable assassin. Aaron Harvey, who last directed...

Catch .44

Opens: 2011

Cast: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll

Director: Aaron Harvey

Summary: The story focuses on three women being thrust into an extraordinary situation involving a psychopathic hitman, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.

Analysis: Oddly little is known about this indie crime comedy aside from the three lead female roles have gone through more than a couple of rounds of casting musical chairs. The likes of Maggie Grace, Kate Mara, Laura Ramsey, Sarah Roemer, Lizzy Caplan and Lauren German were all attached at one point or another before the final trio of Malin Akerman ("Watchmen"), Nikki Reed ("Twilight") and Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") were settled on.

Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Michael Rosenbaum and Brad Dourif also star with Willis as a crime boss behind everything that happens and Whitaker as a dangerously unstable assassin. Aaron Harvey, who last directed...

The Beaver

Opens: March 23rd 2011

Cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence

Director: Jodie Foster

Summary: A depressed toy company CEO with a failed marriage starts to wear a beaver puppet on his hand as a form of therapy, much to the initial bemusement of his family. He soon begins talking only through the character.

Analysis: This time last year, excitement was quietly brewing for "The Beaver". Gibson's drunken tirade a few years before hand wasn't forgotten, but enough time had passed that this looked to be the year of a potential comeback for the actor.

The thriller remake "Edge of Darkness" and this were his first on screen roles in ten years, 'Beaver' is also his "Maverick" co-star Foster's return to the director's chair fifteen years after her last feature. The script topped the 2008 Black List and scored rave reviews for its blend of sophisticated humor and sad pathos,...

The Beaver

Opens: March 23rd 2011

Cast: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence

Director: Jodie Foster

Summary: A depressed toy company CEO with a failed marriage starts to wear a beaver puppet on his hand as a form of therapy, much to the initial bemusement of his family. He soon begins talking only through the character.

Analysis: This time last year, excitement was quietly brewing for "The Beaver". Gibson's drunken tirade a few years before hand wasn't forgotten, but enough time had passed that this looked to be the year of a potential comeback for the actor.

The thriller remake "Edge of Darkness" and this were his first on screen roles in ten years, 'Beaver' is also his "Maverick" co-star Foster's return to the director's chair fifteen years after her last feature. The script topped the 2008 Black List and scored rave reviews for its blend of sophisticated humor and sad pathos,...

Several press releases went out today featuring some huge news coming out of Canada's Fantasia Film Festival including the first batch of films that will be populating this massive three-week long event. Pull up your chair, kids! You're gonna be here for a while!

Dig on the wealth of information below from today's releases and look for more announcements and of course full coverage soon!

Spotlight: Between Death And The Devil

Recent times and crimes have seen extraordinary levels of disillusionment with organized religion, particularly with the Catholic Church, and genre cinema has mirrored this anger with startling impact. In the face of this, we’ve put together this troubling spotlight focused on the abuse of faith, the horrors of ideology and the corruption of Godliness. Several of these films will absolutely stagger you.

Black Death (UK) Dir: Christopher Smith – North American premiere. Hosted by Director Christopher Smith

With the Black Death sweeping across England,...

You want the best of genre film from Canada, the Us and around the globe? Fantasia is the place.

Montreal, June 29, 2010 - For its fourteenth edition, the Fantasia Film Festival is proud to present over 50 titles from Asia. Once again, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are widely represented, demonstrating the great quality and diversity of their industries. And, as always, the programming team is also dedicated to exposing several hidden gems hailing from emerging national cinemas. Through these, audiences can discover new visions and new sensibilities. Therefore, the public will be privy to works hailing from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and - a first for the festival - Indonesia. The filmic multicultural feast prepared by the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival promises to satisfy film lovers of all kinds.

Fantasia's 2010 occidental lineup of World Cinema is once again on fire with an astounding kaleidoscope of styles and sensibilities.

• “Grey’s Anatomy” star Patrick Dempsey joins the cast of Transformers 3: Boom! Boom! Pow! Slow Motion! Quick Cuts! Robots! Slow Motion Megan Fox!. The hunky TV doc will apparently play a dark character in the latest and hopefully final installment in the popular series. Filming will begin very shortly. (MTV Movie Blog)

-Mark your calendars because Summit has picked a release date for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: November 18, 2011. No word, still, if the film will be broken into two parts or in 3-D, but never the less, avoid the multiplexes on November 18, 2011. (Heat Vision Blog)

-Antonio Banderas will team up with acclaimed writer/director Pedro Almodovar for what Almdovar describes as a “terror film.” La Piel que Habito or The Skin I Live In marks the first time the twosome has worked together in nearly 20 years. Production should begin this summer and Almdovar’s onscreen muse,...

It’s that time of year again, kids. Dread Central’s 2010 Horror at the Oscars coverage. Horror was indeed present this year and in black-tie. While Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall were honored a few months back at the Governor’s Award Ceremony, it was an unexpected delight to see Corman, recipient of the lifetime achievement Oscar, enjoy a standing ovation on national television.

I was, however, very disappointed that neither of them were allowed to speak. Roger Corman’s contributions to modern cinema are too vast for him to just stand up and wave. James Cameron was one of many Corman acolytes present, and his nomination speaks to Corman’s tremendous legacy. On the Terminator DVD Cameron mentions, "I trained at the Roger Corman Film School.” Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola, among many others, were also former students.

The terror continued with a spoof of Paranormal Activity...

Pilot season may have had its busiest casting day yet on Monday (Feb. 22), with actors ranging from Emmy winner Jane Kaczmarek to Jim Belushi to Olivia Munn landing roles.

Among the other names on the casting sheets: Adam Arkin, Leah Remini, Zeljko Ivanek, Romany Malco and Wayne Knight. Here's a rundown:

- Former "According to Jim" star Belushi is switching to drama in the CBS pilot "Defenders." He'll play one of a pair of larger-than-life defense attorneys in Las Vegas, the showbiz trade papers report. Niels Mueller and Kevin Kennedy ("The Assassination of Richard Nixon") wrote the script and will executive produce with director Davis Guggenheim, "CSI" exec producer Carol Mendelsohn and Joe and Harry Gantz.

- Kaczmarek ("Raising the Bar," "Malcolm in the Middle") and Arkin, late of "Sons of Anarchy," will star in ABC's comedy "Who Gets the Parents?," according to The Hollywood Reporter. They'll play a long-married couple who decide to split,...

Hong Kong -- On his just-completed swing through some of the Confucian parts of Asia -- China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea -- President Obama faced issues with which the film industry in this part of the world already is familiar.

These include issues of market access, a China that is pushing ahead as a regional superpower but already wants to play on a global stage and a string of Asian economies that largely have pulled out of recession and are out of step with a lumbering U.S.

Precisely how Asia's film industries deal with the rise of China and the new local balance of power isn't clear. It won't be without its bumps, but the biggest surprise might be how easily the rest of Asia falls in line.

"We could be entering an era of interdependence within Asian cinema," says Lee Joo-ick, a Korean producer who recently completed "The Warrior's Way,...

When Laura Leighton got wind of the CW's plans to reboot the 1990s soap sensation "Melrose Place," she shrugged and assumed she would have nothing to do with it. "I figured I was dead," she says with a laugh.Indeed, Leighton's tenure as flame-haired vixen Sydney Andrews on the original "Melrose" ended fairly decisively: After five seasons of blackmail, prostitution, and assorted schemes gone awry, the character was mowed down by an out-of-control car on her wedding day. But producers of the new series had other ideas, and they approached Leighton with a twisty story line straight out of the golden age of nighttime soaps. "They basically thought there was a way Sydney could've faked her death," explains Leighton. "And the real twist is, in the pilot, she's found murdered in the pool. And then we'll have this interesting way of going back in time through flashbacks to put together the pieces.

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

It's a stellar week for fright-fare in the home market, especially for those that prefer Blu-ray, with some pretty big titles hitting the format for the first time.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, September 15, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions.

Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com An American Werewolf In London (Full Moon Edition, DVD & Bd)

Re-discover one of the most gripping horror films of all-time with the cult classic An American Werewolf in London. Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor, director John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House) delivers a contemporary take on the classic...

Year One wants it’s audience to believe it’s Agent Sands at the end of Once Upon A Time In Mexico. The film blindly fires it’s comedy at us, hoping things will hit us and evoke mountains of laughter. Why shouldn’t it? It’s directed by Harold “Egon” Ramis who’s done some decent comedy directing and is responsible for Ghostbusters and Caddyshack. The movie’s headlined by timid nerd Michael Cera, whom everyone adores, and Jack Black, who can be great when he wants to be. The talent is certainly there to make a fun, if useless, summer comedy. Yet like the aforementioned Sands, Year One misses just about every shot of comedy it unleashes.

Year One is terribly constructed together to the point where Ramis should feel ashamed he took part in it. Scenes start, climax, and then cut to the next scene without finishing...