Reese talks about Jake

Who needs couture gowns and expensive jewelry? ET's Steven Cojocaru sits down with Reese Witherspoon and gives the actress a few fun holiday gifts -- for under 10 bucks!

Our fashion guru did not show up empty-handed as he chatted with the Oscar winner about her new film 'Four Christmases.' He presented the lovable star with both a flashing Rudolph nose and a mistletoe with a twist!

Meanwhile, the actress also talked about her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal -- watch our new video to find out what she said!

In 'Four Christmases,' mayhem ensues when a couple, played by Reese and Vince Vaughn, visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.

Watch all the holiday catastrophes when 'Four Christmases' hits theaters November 26th!
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Jake: Spunk of the month

-You filmed love scenes with Jennifer Aniston in the movie "The good girl" and rumours were rife that Brad Pitt was jealous. Any truth to that?

-He's an amazing actor and it's almost belittling his work to say he'd be jealous. I think he was a big influence on Jennifer doing this film because he always plays against type and encouraged her to do the same thing.

Jake's gotten Buff

"Jake Gyllenhaal plays a 6th century prince who holds the fate of the world in his hands in the sweeping fantasy-adventure 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,' and ET's Thea Andrews got up close and personal with the newly minted action hero on the London set! So, how did Jake get that buff bod?

"I over-prepared myself because I never knew how much they were going to ask me to do, so I just made sure I'd be hopefully able to do anything," a playful Jake tells Thea.

The former 'Brokeback Mountain' star trained for months before the arduous Moroccan desert shoot, and has been training daily to maintain his action-hero physique, gaining five pounds of muscle.

"I guess I've gotten buff," he shrugs. "There's a lot acrobatics in the movie -- a lot of running up walls, and jumping on things and Parkour, so it requires muscularity, but it requires a lot of aerobic ability too."

When filming finally wraps, Jake promises with a smile, "It's going to turn into fat and I'm going to be happy."

'Pirates of the Caribbean' blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer is bringing 'Prince of Persia' to life, based on the hugely popular video game and scheduled to open in theaters on May 28, 2010. The story finds Jake as Dastan, a young Persian prince who must join forces with the beautiful and feisty princess Tamina (played by 'Quantum of Solace' Bond girl Gemma Arterton) to prevent a villainous nobleman (Ben Kingsley) from possessing the Sands of Time -- a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

"I'm running away from family and I'm running away from bad guys and I'm trying to prove my innocence," says Jake, trying to keep the play-by-play plot details a secret. "There's so many extraordinary elements throughout the movie."
Source: www.etonline.com

Prince of Persia #2 Ubisoft art video

Happy 31th birthday, Maggie!

"Milk" Trailer video

Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay rights icon Harvey Milk. Mr. Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors' board of San Francisco. The following year, both he and the city's mayor George Moscone were shot to death by another city supervisor, Dan White. Mr. Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature "The Times of Harvey Milk," but "Milk" -- filmed on location in San Francisco -- is the first non-documentary feature to explore the man's life and career.

The Dark Knight's score disqualified

"As it was playing I realized once again, there are a few tracks on that thing that really get your motor running. The opening track, “Why So Serious?”, is an excellent starting point but tracks like “I’m Not a Hero” and “Like a Dog Chasing Cars” really catch your ear while listening. Unfortunately, said score has been disqualified by the Academy music branch and won’t be in the running for Original Score at the 2009 Oscars.

The move mirrors a similar decision disqualifying the score for Batman Begins of which composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, also collaborated on. The catch, as reported by Variety, citing “sources inside the committee” is that the big issue was the fact there were five names listed as composers on the music cue sheet, the official studio document that specifies every piece of music (along with its duration and copyright owner) in the film.

Apparently the decision of whether to include the score for The Dark Knight in the running or not involved four hours of discussion over the past two executive committee meetings, but apparently the fact more than 60%, but less than 70%, of the score was credited to Zimmer and Howard was an issue. The unfortunate thing here is the decision to include the three additional names - music editor Alex Gibson, ambient music designer Mel Wesson and composer Lorne Balfe - was a way of financially rewarding parts of the music team who helped make the overall work successful. I guess karma doesn’t always work for awards, but with The Dark Knight now only $2.4 million away from over $1 billion in box-office receipts I would say karma has a way of working things out".

Source: www.ropeofsilicon.com