Cinema & Movie & celebrity News And Rumors

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In this topic we just tlak about news and rumors about Cinema & Movie & Celebrities & Theater.l

and put USA Box Office each week

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Movie Name.....................................Weekend........................Gross

High School Musical 3: Senior Year..................$15.3M............................$62M

Zack and Miri Make a Porno ......................... $10.1M .......................... $10.1M

Saw V ....................j..............H...i.......... $9.74M .......................... $45.5M

Changeling ............................................ $9.35M .......................... $10M

The Haunting of Molly Hartley .....................i $5.42M .......................... $5.42M

Beverly Hills Chihuahua.............................. $4.86M .......................... $84.2M

The Secret Life of Bees .............................i $4.01M .......................... $25.3M

Max Payne ............................................ $3.69M .......................... $35.5M

Eagle Eye .............................................i $3.48M .......................... $92.6M

Pride and Glory ....................................... $3.36M .......................... $11.7M

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Anna Faris is lining up a new project. We’ve learned from friends involved in the production that she’s being courted for a new horror/comedy called Burn Off.

The movie is about a man named Peter Hansen, a fitness obsessed man whose once thin wife has gotten fat. To help them both achieve the perfect weight, he begins using a diet drink called “Burn Off” which doesn’t work as advertised. The user loses weight, but also his mind. The drink turns Peter into a sadistic murderer who keeps his wife a locked in the basement. No confirmation on what part Anna would play, but it seems likely that she’ll end up imprisoned downstairs.

At one point Larry Cohen was to direct, but we hear that they’re hoping to get Rob Zombie to helm it. He’s never done comedy before, but the man has a rapidly growing reputation as a horror director with a psychotic edge. Can he be funny? We may find out.

If they’re able to get Faris as their lead, she’ll join a cast already composed of Tony Todd, Elizabeth Berkley, and Jason Mewes. Robert A Trezza, Mark Daponte wrote the script, and they're planning a $25 million shoot in Mexico once they get everything locked in.l

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Che is barely in theaters and we’re already hearing about a follow up - thankfully not in the form of a sequel though. Instead the writer/producer team of Peter Buchman and Steven Soderbergh are working together on another film, switching from one Cuban revolutionary to another - one that successfully infiltrated the mob.

Hollywood Reporter announced the project, Making Jack Falcone, which will tell the story of Jack Falcone aka Joaquin Garcia, an FBI agent who almost became a made man after going undercover and infiltrating the Gambino crime family. The trade newspaper offered that the story based on Garcia’s life, and the man’s ability to shift between Sicilian, Cuban, and other ethnicities, should be very appealing to actors adept at transforming themselves for a role.

Buchman will write Making Jack Falcone, based on the Simon & Schuster / Touchstone book released last month. Soderbergh will serve as executive producer, offering guidance as needed. The picture is set up at Paramount, joining several other mafia pictures in development at the studio.l

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Fashion designer Tom Ford has snagged two up and comers to join the already stellar cast of his directorial debut, A Single Man. HR reports that Ginnifer Goodwin and Nicholas Hoult will round out the ensemble.

A Single Man is an adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel and will follow the trials and tribulations of a gay professor in the ‘60s, played by Colin Firth. Goodwin (Big Love) will play an intrigued neighbor who befriends Firth. Newcomer from across the pond, Hault (About a Boy), will play one of his students who is confused about his sexuality. Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode also star.

With Milk about to be in theaters and now this, it seems that gayness in films is finally moving on from Brokeback Mountain. After his turn as the stereotypical “gay one” in paisley pants in Mama Mia, I am excited to see Colin Firth play a more serious gay man. And, who better to direct a flick about a single gay man than an out and proud queer man? I hope this movie is as flamboyant as Ford’s clothes. Go gettem, Ford!l

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Charlize Theron is taking a trip with Tom Cruise. Variety says she’s joined the cast of The Tourist, where she’ll play an Interpol agent who uses an American tourist (Cruise) to hunt down a criminal whom she once had relations of an intimate nature with. That means ---.

The movie is a remake of a French film from way back in 2005. I’m not sure it’s wise to remake something so old, but with Charlize Theron and Tom Cruise involved, you have to assume Hollywood knows what it’s doing. They start shooting in March, which should give us all plenty of time to forget how much Tom Cruise sucked in Valkyrie, making it easier to be optimistic about a movie in which we watch him trudging around in flip-flops on vacation. Of course since it’s Tom Cruise, his vacation will include Charlize Theron and things blowing up.l

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Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa is not even in theaters yet and it’s already breaking records, of a sort. DreamWorks Animation announced this morning that when the movie opens on Friday it will do so in a record-breaking number of IMAX theaters, in addition to showings on thousands of regular theater screens.

In total, the film will be available in 130 IMAX theaters, 35 of which are equipped with the new whiz-bang IMAX digital projection system. That’s more IMAX showings than ever delivered by any other film, and it demonstrates the level of interest Hollywood seems to have in pushing further and further into IMAX technology. Madagascar 2 is the second of five movies which DreamWorks Animation plans to release in the format. The next three will be not only in IMAX but also in 3D. Those are Monsters vs. Aliens (March 2009), How to Train Your Dragon (March 2010), and Shrek Goes Fourth (May 2010).

Of course for most of you, this is utterly meaningless since IMAX locations are generally hard to come by unless you happen to live in a sprawling metropolis. Or if you’re like me, you live in a sprawling metropolis, but on the wrong side of it, leaving an hour drive to the nearest IMAX theater. Hard to justify when there’s a perfectly serviceable theater with perfectly serviceable projection and lower ticket prices just down the block.

If you can find it and you can afford it though, there’s no better way to see a movie than in IMAX. Even if that movie is Madagascar 2. l

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Jessica Simpson's hairdresser pal is healing well after he was injured during a paparazzi scrum at the weekend.

Celebrity stylist Ken Paves needed nine stitches in his head after he was cut trying to protect the singer from photographers as they left Los Angeles' Madeo restaurant on Saturday.

Paves insists he is recovering but appeals to photographers to take more care, so the accident isn't repeated.

He tells Usmagazine.com, "I appreciate everyone who has expressed concern after the incident which occurred outside of Madeo restaurant Saturday evening. While I did not expect a dinner out with friends would end up with me in the emergency room and nine stitches in my head, I am fine.

"My only real concern on Saturday night, and it remains so in retrospect, was for the safety of my friend and all concerned.

"I understand everyone has a job to do, including paparazzi. If I were to say anything about Saturday night, it is only to encourage that everyone would respect and care for the safety of others above all else." l

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Tim Robbins' election day started with drama in New York on Tuesday, when the actor was blocked from voting by officials.

The fervent Barack Obama supporter attempted to register his vote for the Democrat candidate for president at a polling station near his home in the city, the same station he had attended for the past 15 years - but his name wasn't on the list.

When instructed to fill out a provisional ballot, Robbins refused, repeating a claim he had made on U.S. political pundit Bill Maher's TV show just a week before - when he warned that the paper votes aren't properly counted.

He told Maher, "They're throwing those out... If that's your last resort, take it, but fight in the polling place to vote. It's your right as an American. You have every right to vote if you're registered. And if you're not on the rolls and something went wrong, document it."

The fuming 50 year old told the New York Times on Tuesday, "The issue is that they removed my name from the voting rolls. My name was there for the primaries. The poll workers here know me. I've been voting here 15 years."

When a poll worker threatened to call police, the actor retorted, "Is this some kind of intimidation? I'm taking this as intimidation."

Eventually Robbins raced to New York's Board of Elections, where he discovered he was registered to vote after all. He then returned to cast his vote. l

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Kirsten Dunst has launched an investigation of the U.S. voting system in a new documentary.

Dunst has teamed up with filmmaker Jacob Soboroff to direct and produce the film, exploring why American voter participation lags behind turnout in most other countries.

The two are currently at work in North Dakota - the only state without voter registration - where they will interview government officials as citizens take to the polls for Tuesday's presidential election.

Voters must instead bring a photo ID issued by the state, military or an American Indian tribe, a recent utility bill listing their address or sign a sworn statement attesting that they are eligible to vote in their precinct.

And the actress is convinced it's up to her to shed light on the process.

She says, "The older you get, it makes you feel more and more responsible for the power you have, especially being in the entertainment industry... and how delicate and important it is to use that power to influence people in a positive way.

"Being a part of this is constantly teaching me new things. I feel totally honoured and was really proud to vote, and have never been so proud to vote in my entire life."

Dunst also plans to narrate the documentary, but doesn't know yet whether she will appear in it. l