The paparazzi caught Matthew McConaughey filming scenes from his new movie Surfer Dude, and it may just be enough to convince me to go see the movie. His face may be becoming a little old and haggard, but his body is male perfection.
More sexy after the jump.
Sexy star Matthew McConaughey graces the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly magazine, as he promotes his new movie about a football coach bringing the sport back to a town that lost its entire team in a plane crash called We Are Marshall.
On his status as a sex symbol he says:
”I like sexy people, and I think being yourself is sexy. Being yourself and being as good a man as I can be is sexy. My face is considered handsome. My body is considered well put together. For me not to appreciate that would be way out of line. It doesn’t mean that I’m not anything else.”
The movie looks pretty good, and it’s a true story so it’s probably one of those predictable inspirational tear-jerkers that wusses like me eat up like candied yams. It also stars Lost’s Matthew Fox, as well as Deadwood star Ian McShane and Oscar nominee David Strathairn.
Here’s the We Are Marshall trailer:
Captain Scraggly Matthew McConaughey was caught doing yoga on the beach this past week and I must say it makes me a little sad. The body is banging but the face is still looking ultra neanderthal. Can we please go back to the days when you were a hot blondie with a sexy accent and southern charm? Let’s just re-wind to A Time To Kill. And fast.
Christina Aguilera and Diddy tell Entertainment Tonight a little bit about their new soon to be hit “Tell Me” and the video they shot for it recently.
Don’t forget! Christina’s new video for “Hurt” premieres tomorrow! I’ll have it for all you Christina fanatics (like me) tomorrow evening.
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Caveman hottie Matthe McConaughey went jogging yet again…but this time he went wet and apparently showed us a bit more than we bargained for…
Source: Reuters
New Line Cinema is in talks to sign Matthew McConaughey to a two-picture deal, with one being a resurrected “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” and the other a Southern-fried comedic action movie titled “The Grackle.”
In October 2003, “Ghost of Girlfriends Past” was four weeks away from production — with Ben Affleck on board to star — when its studio, the Walt Disney Co., pulled the plug.
New Line, a unit of Time Warner Inc., is now in negotiations with Jon Shestack, one of the original producers, to renew the project.
New Line had a similar film in development but liked the idea of pairing a high-concept romantic comedy with McConaughey, a proven star of such movies, seeing the project as a picture that could have broad appeal.
The script, by Josh Lucas and Scott Moore, tells the story of a commitment-phobic guy who is visited by ghosts of girlfriends past, present and future and through that journey discovers he is in love with his childhood sweetheart.
“Grackle” follows a good-old boy bar brawler in New Orleans who gets into trouble when his arch enemy gets out of prison and targets him for revenge.
The script, described as a throwback to movies like “Road House,” was written by attorneys Mike Arnold and Chris Poole, who live in Boulder, Colo., and Chattanooga, Tenn., respectively. A polished version of their screenplay landed at New Line after a five-company bidding war that drove the sale price up to $750,000.
McConaughey last appeared opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic comedy “Failure to Launch” and recently wrapped work on the upcoming drama “We Are Marshall.”
All last week, the jokes were flying endlessly about the title of Paramount Pictures’ new romantic comedy Failure to Launch, starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Many critics and analysts claimed that the title may as well be a self-fulfilling prophecy for the film’s success. Whomever came up with that title is indeed getting the last laugh today, as the movie took an easy victory at the box office, claiming the #1 spot from Madea’s Family Reunion with an estimated opening gross of $24.6 million, an impressive per-theatre average of over $8 thousand in upwards of 3,000 theatres.
Proving that there was an audience eagerly awaiting a strong romantic comedy, the movie make almost a million more its opening weekend than McConaughey’s previous rom-com hit How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days made three years ago. That movie went onto make over $100 million.
The original comedy was joined this weekend by two very different remakes fighting it out for second place. According to estimates, Disney’s The Shaggy Dog, starring Tim Allen as a man who changes into a dog, eeked out the victory with an opening weekend take of roughly $16 million in over 3,500 theatres.
The Wes Craven produced remake of his own 1977 horror film, The Hills Have Eyes, this time directed by Alexandre Aja, was off to a good start on Friday, but dropped back over the weekend to a respectable opening of $15.5 million in 900 fewer theatres than The Shaggy Dog.
Dropping down to fourth place, the Warner Bros. thriller 16 Blocks, starring Bruce Willis and Mos Def, had the smallest second weekend decline of the movies opening last week, and it stayed perched above the other returning movies with $7.3 million, bringing its gross to $22.7 million.
Having passed the total gross of Tyler Perry’s previous film over the weekend, Madea’s Family Reunion took another 54% drop and ended up at #5 with $5.8 million and a cumulative gross of $55.7 million.
Disney’s other dog movie, Eight Below, lost some of its family business to The Shaggy Dog, but still earned another $5.4 million over the weekend. So far, it has grossed $66.4 million in four weeks, and is currently the third highest grossing film to open in 2006.
Last week’s other new films took sharp drops with 20th Century Fox’s teen comedy Aquamarine pulling slightly ahead of Kurt Wimmer sci-fi-action film Ultraviolet, starring Milla Jovovich, in their second weeks. The former made $3.65 million in its second weekend, while the latter took in $3.6 million, putting it neck and neck with Sony’s hit comedy remake The Pink Panther for eighth place. Starring Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau, the latter has grossed more money than any other movie opening in 2006 after just five weeks.
20th Century Fox’s romantic comedy spoof Date Movie held onto the Top 10 with $2.5 million, bringing its box office gross to $44.2 million. Having doubled its production budget, one can probably expect the inevitable Date Movie 2 to spoof Failure to Launch.
After a brief Oscar run in 2005, the long delayed period drama The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp, finally received a national roll-out into just 815 theatres where it made an unimpressive $2.2 million.
Surprisingly, the sharpest decline from last weekend was suffered by the concert film, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, which took a 68% drop in its second weekend, despite strong reviews before opening. Apparently, Chappelle’s many fans were expecting something different from his comeback. It made less than $2 million this weekend, to bring its total to $9.6 million, but it dropped down to the bottom of the Top 12.
After losing the Best Picture Oscar to Crash last Sunday, Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain took a 49% tumble after losing 395 theatres. Still, it has grossed over $81 million, significantly more than the controversial Oscar victor.
Opening in limited release, the erotic drama Ask the Dust, starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek, made roughly $72 thousand in 7 theatres, while the Alfonso Cuaron sheperded Mexican comedy Duck Season made roughly a third that amount in 6 theatres.
It seems to be all in good fun, but apparently Matthew McConaughey had a little falling out with current squeeze, Penelope Cruz, on the set of his latest movie after admitting his attraction to co-star Sarah Jessica Parker.
McConaughey almost left Penelope Cruz broken-hearted after comments he has been smitten by the former ‘Sex In The City star’ for many years. When the chance came along to work with her on the ‘Failure To Launch’ he was rumored to be quite worked up.
He explains, “I’ve had a crush on her for a long time, since ‘Honeymoon In Vegas’ and then all through the ‘Sex In The City’ stuff. I’ve watched all of that stuff. I like her, and like that show,” he’s quoted as saying.
“I don’t know how to explain it, but she’s, like, manicured, mischievous, and she’s sophisticated but yet she can blush. She’s fun to work with and a pro.”
“And, you know, incredibly easy to be attracted to.”
We wonder if Matthew Broderick is flattered.. or not. If you go by McConaughey, Broderick has nothing to worry about. He seems to be quite content to worship his sultry brunette for the time being.
I just found this picture at Dlisted.blogspot.com
Wow.
I watched this movie again a few weeks ago and I just had to mention it. It’s sensational. And I don’t know how they managed to get this much talent into one film.
In A Time To Kill, a young black girl is raped and severely beaten by two white men in a racist southern town in Mississippi. The girl’s father, played by Samuel L. Jackson, knows that it’s unlikely these men will be convicted, especially with an all-white jury in the box.
Before their trial is even over, Carl Lee (Jackson’s character) shoots and kills the two men in cold blood in the courthouse. He hires Matthew McConaughey, a young, attractive, budding lawyer who once helped his brother, to represent him in his murder trial.
McConaughey’s wife is played by Ashley Judd, and McConaughey’s eventual legal team consists of Oliver Platt and the excellent Sandra Bullock, with Donald Sutherland acting as his drunken, washed-up but smart mentor, while Kevin Spacey plays the slimy but smooth prosecutor. Kiefer Sutherland (yes, Donald’s son—the irony, I know) plays the brother of one of the white men Carl Lee killed, and he gets the Ku Klux Klan, which has been absent from the public eye for quite a while, to taunt and threaten McConaughey, his family, and his legal team for helping out Carl Lee.
Everything about this movie is excellent: the writing, the directing, the music, the acting, of course. But how could it not be, when you have a cast like this one? I mean… Matthew McConaughey, Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Kiefer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey (one of my favorites), Donald Sutherland, Oliver Platt… ALL IN ONE FILM?
McConaughey and Bullock really have the standout performances of the film—especially McConaughey’s closing speech to the jury, which would bring tears to the eyes of even John Madden, and Bullock’s charismatic and charming performance that seems almost effortless (which she has done in almost everything I’ve ever seen her in). Hats off to John Grisham whose book A Time To Kill inspired the movie, for writing such a true and triumphant story. I give this movie three stars on the acting alone—but combined with Grisham’s excellent writing—four stars.
Kelly Clarkson has a crush on fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey, even though he’s in love with Penelope Cruz.
American Idol star Clarkson admits she’d love to read a newspaper story linking her to the A Time To Kill actor.
She says, “Matthew McConaughey, I wouldn’t mind that…
“I don’t really like anybody in the industry other than him. You know, he’s a Texas boy and that’s where I’m from, and he’s hot. Both good characteristics to have.”
Trust me honey, you’re not the only one.
