"The Girl Next Door" on Blu-ray, on 1st September

"The Girl Next Door" will be released on Blu-ray on September 1. The new BD disc will be priced at $29.98 SRP and you can take a look at the cover art below. The film stars Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch, Chris Marquette, Paul Dano and Timothy Olyphant.A tongue-wagging, sexy comedy centers on blond, hot and mysterious, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert) as The Girl Next Door with a not-so-good-girl past and Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch), the straight-laced overachiever with political aspirations who falls in love with her. The wildly revealing and hilarious comedy is available on unrated Blu-ray Disc with more skin...more sex...and more laughs!
Special Features:

- Commentary by Director Luke Greenfield
- Scene Specific Commentary by Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert
- "The Eli Experience" featurette
- Making of A Look Next Door
- Gag Reel
- 15 Deleted Scenes
- Original Ending
- Red Band GND Trailer "diRRTty"
- "Sex Education" featurette
Source: www.movieweb.com

"Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-laced and highly ambitious high school student who plans to study at Georgetown University and dreams of a career in politics.Danielle is playful, spontaneous, and doesn't always remember to draw her shades, and before long Matthew is head over heels in love. Danielle soon finds herself taken with Matthew as well, but their relationship takes an unusual turn when he discovers that, before she moved to town, Danielle had a successful career as a porn actress. Matthew is able to convince Danielle that she's cut out for better things in life than appearing in porn videos, but his advice doesn't especially please Kelly (Timothy Olyphant) or Hugo (James Remar), two porn moguls who figure Matthew owes them big-time after convincing their leading lady to drop out of the adult industry. "The Girl Next Door" -- which, appropriately enough, shares its title with a 1999 documentary about adult film superstar Stacy Valentine -- also features Timothy Bottoms, Paul Dano, and Chris Marquette. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide".
Source: www.movieweb.com

Channing Tatum & Amanda Seyfried in "My Man Godfrey"

Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried pose for Norman Jean Roy as William Powell and Carole Lombard in the 1936 film 'My Man Godfrey'.
"Channing Tatum and his 'Dear John' co-star Amanda Seyfried are featured in Vanity Fair's “Ain’t We Got Style?” article in their upcoming issue that features Heath Ledger on the cover, and you get to see it all here first!

“Ain’t We Got Style?” is a portfolio in the August issue where photographers Michael Roberts, Norman Jean Roy, Mark Seliger, and Art Streiber teamed up with Chan, Amanda, Josh Duhamel, Mila Kunis, Emile Hirsch, and a total of 31 hot, young rising stars to re-enact classic Depression-era films.Make sure to pick up the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair when it hits newsstands later this month" Source: channingtatumunwrapped.blogspot.com

Talking with Jake Gyllenhaal's dad last night

"He is famous, and I have previously enjoyed his work. (Watched that with my parents. Remember it being really good.)

"Oh, you blog for Huffington Post? Cool," said I, oblivious. We chatted about Twitter, embeddable widgets that sell things, and how American banks are one big Ponzi scheme. Very nice man. I demanded he look at my blog. Wonder if he will.

I guess that's one of the infinity things that can happen when you see Sir Richard Bishop at the Croc and take a pizza break at Via Trib". Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

"500 days of Summer": Zooey and Joseph

"Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt are excellent in the central roles.

(500) Days of Summer (Expectations vs. Reality)

Sometimes these tangential departures pay off - such as a segment in which a split-screen reveals Tom's expectations against his reality - but at other times - such as an ill-advised black and white French film homage - it feels as though Webb is serving his own whims rather than adding something to the story for his audience.

Flawed though it is, 500 Days Of Summer is still a fair cut above the average piece of Hollywood fare both in terms of its laugh quotient and offbeat romance".
Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk


"500 days of Summer" - Behind the scenes video.

Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt talk about music tastes.

"500 days of summer" SOUNDTRACK:
1. A Story of Boy Meets Girl – Mychael Danna and Rob Simonsen
2. Us – Regina Spektor
3. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
4. Bad Kids – Black Lips
5. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want – The Smiths
6. There Goes The Fear – Doves
7. You Make My Dreams – Hall & Oates
8. Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
9. Quelqu’un M’a Dit – Carla Bruni
10. Mushaboom – Feist
11. Hero – Regina Spektor
12. Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel
13. Vagabond – Wolfmother
14. She’s Got You High – Mumm-Ra
15. Here Comes Your Man – Meaghan Smith
16. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want – She & Him
Source: www.500days.com

"(500) Days of Summer" stars hipster axiom Joseph Gordon-Levitt as an aspiring architect who falls for a romantically challenged co-worker, played by Zooey Deschanel. As our friends over at Curbed LA note, the film was initially set in San Francisco, but the location was changed after Gordon-Levitt and director Marc Webb took a walking tour of downtown L.A. The script was then rewritten to incorporate the buildings they saw -- including the Bradbury Building (most famous for "Blade Runner"); the Music Center (which includes the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion); and the towers of California Plaza".

ZOOEY DESCHANEL TRACKS DOWN MIDCENTURY CLASSICS IN L.A.:
Architectural Digest: Shopping with Zooey Deschanel.

"The daughter of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel, she thrives on such allowances.

Deschanel grew up in a Craftsman-influenced house in L.A.’s Pacific Palisades and currently lives in a traditional house in Beverly Hills, but she surrounds herself with postwar treasures—an Eero Saarinen Tulip table, a Danish modern love seat and chairs, a vanity and dresser from the 1940s. At the moment she could use a larger dining table—but for Deschanel shopping is less a mission than an adventure. “That’s why I like flea markets. I’ll be looking for one thing and then find something else, like an old record player or typewriter or globe.”
Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

"Downtown L.A. just seemed like a perfect fit in a way. So few people pay it any attention, and there's a ton of history and stuff that's pretty beautiful and fascinating," co-writer Scott Neustadter told Curbed LA.

"We were very conscious not to do the 'Entourage' L.A. but to show it in a way other movies and TV shows rarely do."

'500 Days of Summer' Race You To the Bedroom @ Yahoo! Video

In perhaps an ironic nod, there's also a scene of the stars taking a romp through IKEA. From the architecturally sublime to the big-box generic". Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Watch new "500 days of Summer" HD trailer video.

HC: Rian Johnson and you created a substantial mind blast with 2005’s ‘Brick’. Do you anticipate working with him again, are there any projects floating about?Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nathan Johnson, Rian Johnson and Jared Gellar (The Cinematic Underground).

JG-L: I would hope so. Rian and I are really close and I think he’s going to be making movies for the rest of his life and hopefully I’m doing the same so there is bound to be an intersection at some point.

HC: Your first mainstream summer action movie is about to be released. What is the atmosphere on that type of movie set as opposed to your usual more sedate independent drama?

JG-L: The G.I. Joe set was nothing but fun. It was like getting together with your buddies when you were a kid and playing with toys. Even with all the special effects work, all it is was a fun bunch of toys". Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

134 actors invited to Join the Academy voting members

"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has invited 134 artists and execs to join its ranks. Voting membership of the Acad has held steady at just under 6,000 since 2003.

The 2009 invitees are:

ACTORS:
Casey AffleckEmily BluntMichael Cera
Viola DavisJames Franco
Brendan GleesonAnne Hathaway
Taraji P. HensonEmile Hirsch
Hugh JackmanMelissa Leo
Jane Lynch
Eddie MarsanJames McAvoySeth RogenPaul Rudd
Amy Ryan
Michael ShannonMichelle Williams
Jeffrey Wright
Source: www.variety.com

Two new additions to "The Runaways"

"Kristen, best known for her role as Bella in the Twilight films, burst into tears after Joan harshly critiqued her performance in front of the rest of the cast.

“Joan just wants Kristen to play an authentic version of herself, so she needled, her a little bit too much. But she apologized when she realized how upset Kristen got”, a spywitness told The NY Daily News Tuesday.An extra from the film last week blogged on hearing Kristen Stewart sing 'I Love Playing with Fire' 55 times". Source: www.examiner.com

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning on "The Runaways" set.

"Latino Review broke the news of Alia Shawkat’s casting, whereas Life & Style came out with the story that Tatum O’Neal has been tapped to star in the biopic movie.Shawkat who plays acerbic teenager Maeby Funke in FOX’s comedy series “Arrested Development” reportedly will be playing a character named Robin. Latino Review describes Robin as an 18-year-old tall and slender bass player who is the oldest and most feminine of the band, hinting further that the character may have been created in essence of the band’s original Micki Steele.Academy Award-winning O’Neal will take the role of a mother. The 45-year-old daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal allegedly has been cast to play the mother of Dakota Fanning’s character, Cherie Currie. Previously, “H2: Halloween 2″ star Scout Taylor-Compton confirmed through her MySpace that she has secured the role of guitar icon Lita Ford for the movie. “hey guys! I have some pretty exciting news! I have recently been filming my ass off on my newest project ‘The Runaways’!!” she wrote. “So far the process has been amazing, I am so lucky and honored to be able to portray the guitar icon Lita Ford!”
Source: www.aceshowbiz.com

"Eclipse" will begin shooting in August

Check out these hilarious captions MAD (issue #498) featured in their magazine
Source: bellaandedward.com

Scans of "New Moon" on set, behind-the scenes in Us magazine.
"Summit Entertainment will film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse from August 17th until October 31st at Vancouver Film Studios. David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night) will direct from a script by Melissa Rosenberg.In the third installment of the franchise, coming to theaters on June 30, 2010, Bella (Kristen Stewart) once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward (Robert Pattinson) and her friendship with Jacob (Taylor Lautner) — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life". Source: www.comingsoon.net