A surge of low-grade stars has thrown the celebrity world into a sub-prime crisis. Now where’s Mervyn King? Going by this weekend’s headlines, setting next year’s citizenship test should be a doddle.
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Celebrity world is in sub-prime crisis
Reboot of the Schwarzenegger action franchise marks start of a remarkable return for the Desperado director, who may yet team up again with Quentin Tarantino “Sometimes I feel like I’m in a dream world,” says director-producer Robert Rodriguez, “because it doesn’t always seem too logical how things work out.” Indeed, this year the film-maker is feeling a distinct case of deja vu. His first release this month will be a sequel to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 film Predator, helmed by Hungarian director Nimród Antal, produced at his Troublemaker Studios outfit in Texas, and based on a script Rodriguez wrote as a writer for hire during a brief production hiatus in the mid-90s.
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‘I wrote it big and crazy’
The comedian and actor talks about his family Comedy is in my genes . My dad used to say: “There’s nothing so terrible that can’t be laughed at.” And he would laugh at the most horrible things – including his own Alzheimer’s. He found Alzheimer’s hilarious
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Mike Myers: My family values
The prevailance of life-sapping yet lucrative summer films is being traced back to George Lucas’s space franchise. No fair If anything in life is as inevitable as a large number of summer movies wanting to make you join the nearest Trappist monastery, it’s the complaints about them from what remains of the critical community
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Summer fare not Star Wars’s fault
Never heard of the young actor cast as Peter Parker? Andrew Garfield has starred in some of Britain’s finest TV dramas Andrew Garfield has swung into Google’s most-searched list and Twitter’s trending charts, thanks to the three internet Viagra words now tagged onto his name: ” new Spider-Man “.
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Introducing the new Spider-Man
Rampaging hormones and overwrought teen yearning … but the third Twilight movie is a well-constructed revenge plot thriller The Twilight films may be as ruthlessly exploitative a franchise as Harry Potter; they may be devoted to a creepy ideological agenda to promote pre-marital chastity; and they may be simply retreading much of the high-school vampire shtick that made Buffy a TV hit more than a decade ago.
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Eclipse delivers an operatic, high-voltage kick
Where the Disney-owned studio leads, the rest of Hollywood follows.
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How Pixar changed the face of cinema
Teen vampire film to open in the greatest number of American cinemas in history All bets are off as to whether the latest Twilight film will surpass the gargantuan box-office takings of the two previous films in the teen vampire-romance series when it opens in the US tonight. However, one thing is already certain: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse will debut in more Stateside cinemas than any movie in history
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Twilight eclipses US release record
Already credited as producer, it seems Jackson could be willing to take up the directing reins. But delays could be a deal-breaker It’s the news all fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the seminal JRR Tolkien novel, had wanted to hear: he’s in talks to direct the two planned Hobbit movies , following the departure of Guillermo del Toro
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Peter Jackson may take Hobbit reins
He may not be America’s sweetheart, but Cruise has come in for disproportionate criticism over his latest team-up with Cameron Diaz.
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Knives are out for Knight and Day