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• Anderson Cooper Loses It During Gerard Depardieu 'Jet Stream' Report
• Anne Hathaway Defends Her 'One Day' Accent
• Kim K's Wedding Countdown: Bridesmaids in Green? No Honeymoon?
• Stage Collapses at Pukkelpop Festival, Four People Reportedly Dead
• Two The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Photos
• EXCLUSIVE: Marti Noxon Talks Fright Night
• Justin Bieber's Street Sign Stolen
• Kate Winslet Has Titanic Beef Against Cosmetic Surgery
• Girl Talk Slams His Own Sampling Style, Calls it 'Blatant'
• Scottish Sandwich Shop Names A Panini After Brad Pitt, Who Has Excellent Handwriting
• Poudre Canyon fired contained
• Ridley Scott signs on to direct and produce a new version of 'Blade Runner'
• What movies have a worse Director's Cut?
• Where Art Thou, Kaiju Monsters of Yesteryear?
• Universal developing documentary about homemade haunted houses
• 'South Park' Documentary To Air On Comedy Central
• Ridley Scott to Direct Second Blade Runner
• Underworld: Awakening Trailer
• UPDATED: Ridley Scott To Direct A New Blade Runner Installment!
• Denver police investigate felony menacing after brothers' argument

Anderson Cooper Loses It During Gerard Depardieu 'Jet Stream' Report Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:41 AM PDT Anderson Cooper has covered the toughest news stories with dignity and professionalism but his straight-laced facade has come undone. The CNN anchor recently lost his composure while doing a segmen... Read More >

Anne Hathaway Defends Her 'One Day' Accent Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:36 AM PDT Anne Hathaway has hit back at criticism of her northern English accent in new romantic movie One Day, insisting her voice is "designed to change" because her character regularly moves around the U.... Read More >

Kim K's Wedding Countdown: Bridesmaids in Green? No Honeymoon? Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:14 AM PDT As Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries' big wedding day draws near, "Extra's" Renee Bargh gets more inside nuptials scoop from the Kardashian family, catching up with the reality TV stars Wednesday at the launch of the Kardashian Kollection at Sears. Khloe Kardashian confessed to Renee, "All we've been doing is running from appointment to appointment to appointment. I think we work better in chaotic situations." Kim's little sisters, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, said their older sister was a little miffed at them for telling the color of the bridesmaids' dresses. Kendall explained, "She got kind of pissed that we told everyone that her dresses were green because she didn't want to let out the color of the dress." As for a honeymoon, Kim herself admitted it's not happening for awhile. "Let's put it this way, no honeymoon, because we have work." Kim and sister Kourtney Kardashian have to go to New York to start a new season of "Kourtney and Kim Take New York" -- which may give the mother-of-the-bride Kris Jenner some time to unwind after all the wedding hoopla. Kris laughed, "She's a lot calmer than I am." And there's also the new Sears clothing line. Kim explained, "We just wanted really fun, chic affordable pieces that we could mix and match with just everything in our wardrobe." See photos from the event! Looking slim and trim, Kim is reportedly working out with Gunnar Peterson and Tracy Anderson to refine her shape and cutting out fatty foods and sugar. A day in the life of a Kardashian is never boring! Stay tuned for all the wedding details this weekend when Kim and Kris tie the knot Saturday.

Stage Collapses at Pukkelpop Festival, Four People Reportedly Dead Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:20 PM PDT Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News, Holy Hell Fat Possum Records Over the past summer, outdoor festivals have been plagued by bad weather that has caused multiple stage collapses. Now, Pitchfork reports that Chicago power-poppers the Smith Westerns were at the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium earlier Thursday (Aug. 18) when the stage they were about to play on crashed to the ground. While details are still unfolding, the Associated Press -- citing Belgian media outlets -- reports that at least four people are dead.

Two The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Photos Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:03 AM PDT Columbia Pictures has released two new photos from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which hits theaters nationwide on December 21. Click on these images below, which feature Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, to access our growing gallery. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo comes to theaters December 21st, 2011 and stars Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård, Christopher Plummer, Joely Richardson, Yorick van Wageningen, Steven Berkoff. The film is directed by David Fincher.

EXCLUSIVE: Marti Noxon Talks Fright Night Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:54 AM PDT Screenwriter Marti Noxon discusses Fright Night, the Twilight influence, future projects, and more. Screenwriter Marti Noxon got her start on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a writer/story editor/director and, naturally, moved up the Hollywood food chain rapidly. She wrote for and/or produced such shows as Angel, Private Practice, Prison Break, and Mad Men. Marti Noxon recently wrote the screenplay for the upcoming horror remake Fright Night, which hits theaters nationwide on August 19. I recently had the chance to speak with Marti Noxon over the phone. Here's what she had to say. In going through your filmography, you have worked on some TV things and some horror projects. I was curious where the original Fright Night sat with you? Marti Noxon: I definitely felt a Buffy connection to this one, because it definitely has a high school feel to it. It's very character driven and it has a nice blend of horror and comedy to it, that I felt that I hadn't seen enough of. I mean Zombieland was one of my favorites of the past couple of years, and, before that, Shaun of the Dead, but they don't make those kinds of genre hybrid movies anymore. The fact that I knew that the original had a lot of those elements, was an original plus. Right away, were there things that you knew you needed to keep from the original, and things that you knew you had to make your own? Marti Noxon: Immediately, you ask questions like, 'There are very few late-night horror talk-show hosts, so what are we going to do about Peter Vincent?' That was one, right off the bat, that I can think of. It's kind of a shame, too, because those were good times. There was that and, in the original, Jerry has this romantic side to him and an attachment too the Aimee character where, in a Twilight universe, that's really been played out. You can see we dispense with that. We wanted to create a vampire that was more of a pure predator. For us, there was kind of a streamlining of the original story. The things we wanted to keep, for sure, was the relationships between the characters were really interesting. The Evil Ed and Charlie relationship could've been explored a little bit further. To me, these things were very interesting. They were things from the first one which I thought could've been brought into now and bring some fun stuff to it. There are obviously a few little jabs at Twilight in this movie. Do you think that franchise being what it is actually helped you steer Fright Night in the right direction? Marti Noxon: That's interesting, maybe. It's not so much the movies. I haven't seen many of them, but more the books that I had a strong reaction to. For me, the forbidden romance I totally get, and I understand why the 14-year-old girls and the housewives and all of us really get off on that, but the lack of a strong female hero, this passive girl who reacts to any monster who comes along, really turns me off. Definitely some of my decisions were guided by that. Can you talk a bit about this cast coming together? I know most writers don't write with cast members in mind, but did you have to rework anything when this cast came together, or did it all fit? Marti Noxon: We did a little bit for Colin (Farrell). There was some stuff at the end that hadn't been there before. We had to give him a stronger point of view in the final sequence, so there was a little bit of rewriting there for him, but not much. What he brought, I think, so beautifully to the character was the physicality and his interesting twitches and the whole smell thing. You can tell he's taking people's scent in. I think I wrote one line about that and they just took that idea and ran with it. Certainly, they all had license to bring their own ideas to the table, and there's some really funny improv that stayed in the movie. Both Christopher Mintz-Plasse and David Tennant and all of those guys were really good at that. Some of my favorite laugh-out-loud funny moments were things they made up on the side. I couldn't have come up with the Stretch Armstrong line (Laughs). I'm not a dude. It would have never occurred to me (Laughs). I can write pretty blue, but there's only so much I can do. Did you spend a lot of time on the set in Albequerque? Were there a lot of on-the-fly script changes that were happening? Marti Noxon: Not as much as I would like to, actually. I have a couple of kids and I was working on a couple of other projects here, but the experience of being there was fantastic. They were incredibly welcoming and I really enjoyed it. We didn't do much rewriting. It's one of those rare things where they shot the script which was written and then they would improv. They would always get what was written, and then they would improv when they felt like it, and, later, in the editing process, they'd go, 'Hey, what do you think?' When David Tennant wants to riff, I generally think yeah, that's awesome. Can you talk a bit about working with (director) Craig Gillespie? Like yourself, he has a very wide canon of genres he's worked in. Can you talk about what he brought to the table, in terms of his direction? Marti Noxon: Yeah. It was interesting because at first I was kind of like, 'Huh, Lars and the Real Girl,' which I loved, but there weren't a lot of scares in that movie. Then I saw a bunch of his commercial work and it became clear that he can do anything he wants. He's so good with performance and great with actors, so the fact that he brought this cast to the table was really exciting. It was great to see this all come together because it all came through very fast. Marti Noxon: Yeah, me too. I've never had this experience, ever. I think we went from script to finished product in a year. There is starting to be this negative connotation attached to even the word "remake" these days. For those who might be against the Fright Night remake, just because it's a remake, what would you like to say to counter that? Marti Noxon: The only thing I can say is this one is certainly not done cynically. It wasn't done just because we thought there was this title that hasn't been exploited. Everyone who came to the table really loved the original and wanted to revisit that great premise of a kid living next door to a vampire, that Rear Window idea which is so potent. I would only say that we didn't approach it cynically and we tried to make a really good movie. Is there anything that you're currently working on that you can talk about? I know you have a very extensive TV catalog under your belt. Is there any movie or TV projects you're working on? Marti Noxon: Yeah, I am in the middle of working on a movie called Bad Baby for DreamWorks. It's sort of a John Hughes-style comedy about a little boy... basically it's like a little boy with Jack-Jack for a brother. It's a super fun, broad and slap-sticky sort of piece. I'm also casting around for my next movie thing, and I have a super-secret project that I can't talk about. Is there any chance you'd return to Mad Men when they start up? Marti Noxon: I don't think so. I left in good graces, thank god, but he really needed someone to be there full-time, and I'm enjoying writing movies. As long as they'll let me, I'll keep at it. Finally, what would you say the big draw is, the big reason people should see Fright Night in theaters this weekend? Marti Noxon: I think we are really going to benefit from lowered expectations. I can tell you that audiences have come out having had a really good time. Excellent. That's about all I have for you, Marti. Thank you so much for your time and best of luck with that super-secret project and everything else. Marti Noxon: OK, thank you. You can check out Marti Noxon's horror remake Fright Night in theaters this weekend starting on August 19. Fright Night comes to theaters August 19th, 2011 and stars Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, David Tennant, Imogen Poots, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dave Franco, Reid Ewing. The film is directed by Craig Gillespie.

Justin Bieber's Street Sign Stolen Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:19 AM PDT Justin Bieber's Texas street honor has been short-lived - a thief has stolen the road sign, two days after it was unveiled. Caroline Gonzalez, an 11-year-old fan of the Baby hit-maker, won a cont... Read More >

Kate Winslet Has Titanic Beef Against Cosmetic Surgery Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:03 AM PDT Beautiful actress Kate Winslet has never had any qualms about embracing her natural, curvy figure. The 35-year-old is now going a step further by taking a stand against the pressures of Hollywood for women to go under the knife... or needle. Winslet tells The Telegraph that she's teamed with Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz to form the "British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League," declaring, "I will never give in. It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty." She added, "I am an actress, I don't want to freeze the expression of my face." Thompson, 52, agreed, "I'm not fiddling with myself. We're in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60." Newlywed Weisz, 41, said, "People who look too perfect don't look particularly sexy or beautiful." Their hearts, and faces, will go on.

Girl Talk Slams His Own Sampling Style, Calls it 'Blatant' Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: News, Exclusive Darren Hauck, Getty Images For a guy who has close to 30,000 followers on Twitter and a fanbase fawning over his every mix, Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, is certainly humble. "I'm doing a very blatant version of what can be done with samples," he admits to Spinner. "Everyone's incorporating elements of previously-existing music into what they're doing; the idea of it isn't as radical or as controversial as it used to be." So is Girl Talk, as his critics claim, just the product of other artists' hard work? Gillis admits it's tempting to slag sampling and remixes for lacking the creativity of "original" work, but one should really reconsider before doing so. According to the mashup master, sampling is what keeps Girl Talk's sound evolving.

Scottish Sandwich Shop Names A Panini After Brad Pitt, Who Has Excellent Handwriting Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT While filming "World War Z" in Glasgow, Scottland, today The Metro Sandwich Company honored Brad Pitt by creating "The Brad Pitt Special Panini," which Brad's assistant collected for the star's lun... Read More >

Poudre Canyon fired contained Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:19 AM PDT A small fire was quickly contained in the Poudre Canyon west of Fort Collins.

Ridley Scott signs on to direct and produce a new version of 'Blade Runner' Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:39 AM PDT submitted by Stratten [link] [2 comments]

What movies have a worse Director's Cut? Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:58 AM PDT I just watched 1408 again and didn't realize it was the director's cut. Totally different, awkward ending. Reminds me of when I saw the director's cut of Payback, which is a very very different version. submitted by girafa [link] [8 comments]

Where Art Thou, Kaiju Monsters of Yesteryear? Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:24 AM PDT submitted by TajesMahoney [link] [1 comment]

Universal developing documentary about homemade haunted houses Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:51 AM PDT submitted by HalloweenBlues [link] [comment]

'South Park' Documentary To Air On Comedy Central Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:47 AM PDT South Park fans! Get ready to get even more info from creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker about your favorite show! The boys are about give us a documentary about their Emmy winning series on Comed... Read More >

Ridley Scott to Direct Second Blade Runner Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT Ridley Scott has committed himself to direct and produce a new Blade Runner movie for Warner Bros. and Alcon Productions. We reported back in March that Warner Bros. is looking to make both an unknown number of prequels and sequels to this sci-fi classic, and it isn't known which one Ridley Scott will tackle first. The director will start on this new Blade Runner after he finishes work on Prometheus, which is slated for release on June 8, 2012. The new Blade Runner project does not have a writer attached at this point, and it isn't known if Harrison Ford will return to portray Richard Deckard. Blade Runner was released theatrically in 1982 and, although it wasn't a blockbuster, grossing just $32 million, the movie gained a massive following in the years that followed. The movie centered on Harrison Ford's Richard Deckard, a blade runner who is tasked with finding and eliminating "replicants," robots who easily pass as humans. He ends up falling for one of the replicants and struggles with the decision of whether or not to destroy her. The movie was adapted from the Philip K. Dick short story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Ridley Scott will produce alongside Alcon's Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson. Blade Runner was released June 25th, 1982 and stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James. The film is directed by Ridley Scott.

Underworld: Awakening Trailer Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT The first trailer has arrived for the upcoming genre sequel Underworld: Awakening, which hits theaters nationwide on January 20, 2012. Click on the video player below for your first glimpse at this new installment of the vampires vs. werewolves franchise, which features the return of Kate Beckinsale as Selene. Click to watch Underworld: Awakening Trailer! Underworld: Awakening comes to theaters January 20th, 2012 and stars Michael Sheen, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, Michael Ealy, India Eisley, Theo James. The film is directed by Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein.

UPDATED: Ridley Scott To Direct A New Blade Runner Installment! Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:44 AM PDT After a lot of rumors and talks about another Blade Runner film, we now have a confirmation that there will indeed be a new installment with Ridley Scott returning to direct. Deadline has more info: "After revisiting his classic Alien with the upcoming 3D Fox film Prometheus, Ridley Scott is committing to direct and produce a film that advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film. Scott has signed on to direct and produce a new installment of Blade Runner." Now, many people are excited for Prometheus, which is a new take on the Alien mythology with different characters. I would say he might do the same with a new Blade Runner. Will it be a prequel, a sequel or a brand new take without Harrison Ford? Well, no one knows that yet, but after this, more details should be available soon. As you know, the 1982 film was based on Philip

Denver police investigate felony menacing after brothers' argument Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:53 AM PDT Denver Police are investigating a felony menacing and criminal mischief case at 4235 Eugene Way.

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