Linkage: Apprentice’s Carolyn Gets Fired, Michelle Gellar Gets Addicted, Timberlake’s Number 1

Posted under Anna Faris, Celebrities, Charts, Justin Timberlake, Movies, Music, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Television, The Apprentice by Chris Evans on Thursday 31 August 2006 at 4:08 pm

After weeks of being the most added song at radio in L.A. and New York, Justin Timberlake’s first song off his second album, “SexyBack” has reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. This can only mean good things for his first week sales.

The final title for the second Pirates of the Caribbean sequel has been revealed (even though we already knew that shit anyway).

Sarah Michelle Gellar is starring in yet another supernatural thriller, this time it’s called Addicted.

Donald Trump has fired Apprentice staple and employee Carolyn. Wtf, I loved that bitch!

Rising star Anna Faris is attached to a new comedy produced by Happy Madison and written by the screenwriters that brought us Legally Blonde.

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This week’s Video Clip of the Week is a performance by the Scissor Sisters of their track It Can’t Come Quickly Enough that was featured on the Party Monster soundtrack.

I’ve always loved the Scissor Sisters, but I’ve never heard this track. I watched the performance and I was like…mesmerized. Like it was almost a religous experience. Jake Shears is a God.

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Photos: 2006 MTV Movie Awards

Christina Aguilera premiered her new single Ain’t No Other Man” in a live performance at the MTV Movie Awards two nights ago and from the buzz around it and the pictures–it looks like it was a promising performance. What it has to do with movies–who knows. But who cares?

Jessica Alba hosted the star-studded event with four outfit and hair changes, and among the winners were Jake Gyllenhaal (Best Actor and Best Kiss), Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (Best Fight), Steve Carrell (Comedic Performance) and even Jessica herself (Sexiest Performance).

It airs on Thursday, June 8.

Here are some pictures from the event, including Christina Aguilera’s saucy performance.

Click here for more.

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‘My Super Ex-Girlfriend’ Poster Revealed

Posted under Anna Faris, Luke Wilson, Movies, Uma Thurman by Chris Evans on Saturday 29 April 2006 at 12:13 am

IGN Filmforce has your first look at the new poster for Fox’s My Super Ex-Girlfriend, starring Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Rainn Wilson and Wanda Sykes.

In the Ivan Reitman comedy, Matt Saunders (Wilson) thinks he’s finally found the perfect girlfriend, the beautiful Jenny Johnson (Thurman) - who just so happens to be a superhero. When Jenny/G-Girl becomes overly possessive, Matt wants to call it quits – but how do you break up with a superhero? A scorned woman, Jenny/G-Girl unleashes on her ex the full fury of her super-powered wrath as she sets out on a no-holds-barred mission to bust up Matt’s budding romance with his co-worker Hannah (Faris).

My Super Ex-Girlfriend hits theaters on July 21.

Click here to see the poster.

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Anna Faris Stars With Jon Heder and Diane Keaton

Posted under Anna Faris, Celebrities, Movies by Chris Evans on Monday 24 April 2006 at 5:24 pm

Fresh off a successful turn in “Scary Movie 4,” Anna Faris is joining the cast of “Mama’s Boy,” a Warner Independent Pictures comedy that will be directed by Tim Hamilton.

Jon Heder is playing the title character, a slacker in his 30s who still lives with his mom (Diane Keaton). When the mom falls for a motivational speaker (Jeff Daniels), the slacker’s way of life is threatened. Faris plays Heder’s love interest, a singer-songwriter.

Shooting is scheduled to start in mid-June in Los Angeles. Hank Nelken wrote the script. Heidi Santelli is producing, while Steve Carr exec produces. Mark Gill and Paul Federbush oversee for WIP.

Faris has starred in all four of the “Scary” movies, which have collectively grossed more than $680 million worldwide. The fourth installment opened this month to $41 million at the boxoffice.

Faris‘ other recent credits include “Brokeback Mountain” and “Just Friends.” She next appears in “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” and is shooting a starring turn in indie feature “Smiley Face.

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Scary Movie 4 Tops Easter Box Office With 41 Million

Posted under Anna Faris, Box Office, Movies, Scary Movie 4 by Chris Evans on Sunday 16 April 2006 at 6:14 pm

After earning nearly $19 million on Good Friday, Dimension Films’ comedy Scary Movie 4, which spoofed movies like War of the Worlds and The Grudge, grossed an estimated $41 million over the Easter weekend. That was a smaller opening than Scary Movie 3 and not enough for it to top Adam Sandler’s April opening record-holder Anger Management, but it is the highest opening movie ever to open over the Good Friday/Easter weekend, averaging more than $11 thousand per theatre in roughly 3,600 theatres nationwide.

20th Century Fox’s animated hit Ice Age: The Meltdown, currently the #1 opening and grossing movie of 2006, dropped down to second place with an impressive third weekend of $20 million, bringing its total gross to $147 million.

Sony’s madcap baseball comedy The Benchwarmers, starring Rob Schneider, David Spade and Jon Heder, dropped 49% in its second weekend, taking third place with $10 million. It has grossed almost $36 million in its first ten days.

Disney offered up their own computer animated family film, The Wild, to try to compete with Ice Age, but it fell short, earning less than $9.6 million over the Easter weekend in 2,854 theatres, and opening in fourth place.

Dropping to fifth place in its second weekend, New Line’s musical drama Take the Lead, starring Antonio Banderas, earned $6.7 million, bringing its total to $22.5 million.

The Spike Lee directed crime drama Inside Man, starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster, continued to do decent business, adding another $6.3 million over the Easter weekend for a total of just over $75 million in four weeks. Its currently the fifth highest grossing film of the year, and could try to make a play to get into the Top 3 before the summer.

At #7, another ensemble crime drama, Lucky Number Slevin, this one from MGM and the Weinstein Company, also held up well over Easter, adding another $4.6 million to its gross.

Jason Reitman’s dark comedy, Thank You for Smoking, starring Aaron Eckhart, tripled its theatres on Friday, jumping from #10 to #8 with $4.4 million in a little over 1,000 theatres. The independent film, distributed by Fox Searchlight, has earned roughly $11.5 million since opening in early March.

The Mo’Nique comedy Phat Girlz and the Warner Bros. drama ATL both took plunges over Easter weekend, ending up just outside the Top 10 with $1.2 and $1.3 million respectively.

Lionsgate released the Spanish drama La Mujer de mi Hermano into 200 theatres in select cities where it earned just over $1 million, an average of $5,000 per theatre.

Lionsgate also released their psychological thriller Hard Candy into a single theatre each in New York and L.A., and it earned $60 thousand between them.

Mary “American Psycho” Haron’s biodrama The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol, grossed $145 thousand its opening weekend in 20 theatres, while the Miramax Brit-comedy Kinky Boots, starring Chiwetel Ejiofour in drag, grossed $81 thousand in 9 theatres.

The indie dramedy Friends with Money, starring Jennifer Aniston and Catherine Keener, added another $805 thousand in its second weekend after adding 14 more theatres. It has grossed $1.6 million in limited release, and will expand nationally on Friday.

Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films.

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‘Brokeback Mountain’ Heads To DVD April 4

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that “Brokeback Mountain“, starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, will be available on DVD April 4. The film was directed by Ang Lee (”Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon“), who earned an Academy Award.

“As one of the most talked-about movies of the year, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ has not only established a new benchmark in filmmaking but it has also permeated the public consciousness to an unprecedented level,” commented Craig Kornblau, President, Universal Studios Home Entertainment. “We are confident that this DVD will profoundly resonate among consumers and that it will quickly become an integral part of every DVD collection.”

Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Director (Lee), Best Adapted Screenplay (Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana) and Best Original Score (Gustavo Santaolalla), “Brokeback Mountain” tells the story of Ennis Del Mar (Ledger) and Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal), two young men dispatched to work as sheepherders up on the majestic “Brokeback Mountain” in the summer of 1963. During their experience, Ennis and Jack are drawn into an unexpected life-long relationship, filled with love and loss.

The DVD is priced at $29.98 SRP.

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Anna Faris Puts On A “Smiley Face”

Posted under Anna Faris, Celebrities, Movies by Chris Evans on Wednesday 15 March 2006 at 3:17 pm

Anna Faris is starring in “Smiley Face, a stoner comedy being directed by Gregg Araki, says The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which begins production this week, is being produced by First Look Studios’ Henry Winterstern and Kevin Turen along with Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Alix Madigan.

The story, written by first-timer Dylan Haggerty, centers on a young actress and hopeless slacker (Faris) who, after she inadvertently ingests her roommate’s pot-laced brownies, attempts to manage her day as it goes awry through a series of misadventures.

Also cast in the film are John Krasinski (The Office), John Cho (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) and Jane Lynch (The 40-Year-Old Virgin).

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