"Nailed" starring Jake Gyllenhaal gets a screening at the ArcLight Pasadena

"Nailed" starring Jessica Biel and Academy Award-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal, was filmed in and around the State House in 2008. But after financial troubles forced director David O. Russell to abandon the project with only one scene remaining, many thought the film would never be released.

Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of "Nailed" in Columbia, South Carolina, on 17th April 2008

"To shoot everything but one scene and then pull the plug and have $26 million sitting there with these kinds of stars, I just don't think I've heard of something like that," said Hollywood reporter Kim Masters, who followed the film's troubled development.

Deadline.com reports that nearly three years after "Nailed" finished production in Columbia, the film was finally given a test screening Tuesday night at the ArcLight Pasadena Theatre in California -- but nobody told the movie's stars or director.
Still of Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams in The Fighter (2010)

"Last night's screening played like an assemblage of rough footage, without the nuance Russell would have injected had he finished," wrote Deadline's Mike Fleming, who speculated that new interest in the film is due to Russell's recent Oscar nomination for "The Fighter."
The film still needs a great deal of post-production before it could ever see a traditional release, to say nothing of the still-unfilmed crucial scene. The producers are keeping the project under wraps, with the ArcLight Pasadena saying the studio asked them not to confirm the screening even took place". Source: www.wistv.com

Happy 100th Anniversary, Jean Harlow!

Jean Harlow: 3rd March 1911 (Kansas City, Missouri) - 7th June 1937 (Los Angeles, California)

Today, 3rd March 2011, marks the 100 birthday mark of Baby Harlean Harlow Carpenter who became a star in Hollywood as Jean Harlow, born 3rd of March 1911 to Dr. Montclair and Mrs. Carpenter-Harlow.

"MGM writer Harry Ruskin recalled: 'The day "the baby" died there wasn't one sound in the commissary for three hours... not one goddamn sound." That's from Dina-Marie Kulzer's overview of a life cut short in 1937 by kidney failure. Jean Harlow was all of 26, but she'd appeared in 36 films and — a first for any movie actress — on the cover of LIFE. She would have turned 100 today and to celebrate, the Kitty Packard Pictorial is hosting a rich and varied blogathon running through Sunday.
By the way, out this week from Warner Home Video and TCM's new series of four-title DVD packages is TCM Greatest Classic Legends: Jean Harlow, featuring Dinner at Eight (1933), Libeled Lady (1936), China Seas (1935) and Wife Vs Secretary (1936). TCM also wants Angelenos to know that on Sunday, Darrell Rooney and Mark A Vieira, authors of Harlow in Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell in the Glamour Capital, will be at the Egyptian Theater, where there'll be a slide show and a screening of Bombshell (1933)". Source: mubi.com

In "Wife vs Secretary", Clark Gable, a successful publisher, is involved in an adulterous affair with his curvaceous secretary, Jean Harlow (who turns in a scene-stealing performance and not as a sex-pot). Mirna Loy, who plays Gable's wife is disappointed that he doesn't immediately remember it's their anniversary.


A video dedicated to the first Platinum Blonde Bombshell: Jean Harlow, in her 100th Anniversary. Songs "I want your love" by Transvision Vamp and "The Jean Genie" by David Bowie

"A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city
Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers
Ate all your razors while pulling the waiters
Talking 'bout Monroe and walking on Snow White
New York's a go-go and everything tastes nice
Poor little Greenie, woh ho
Get back home" -"The Jean Genie" by David Bowie

"I don't want your books on Marilyn or Bobby D
I don't want your records, your pictures
Or anything, I want your funky love
I don't want your money, I want your love
I don't want your stars, I want your aahhh!
I want your love" -"I want your love" by Transvision Vamp

Behind The Scenes of Robert Pattinson & Reese Witherspoon in ‘Water For Elephants’

"Water for Elephants" Trailer #2: During the Great Depression, Jacob, a penniless and recently-orphaned veterinary school student, parlays his expertise with animals into a job with a second-rate traveling circus. He falls in love with Marlena, one of the show's star performers, but their romance is complicated by Marlena's husband, the charismatic but unbalanced circus boss.

Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson on the set of "Water for Elephants" (2011)


Based on the New York Times Bestseller, “Water For Elephants” tells the story of Jacob, played by Robert Pattinson, who joins a traveling road circus in the 1930’s and Access has your exclusive look behind the scenes as Robert and co-star Reese Witherspoon film and dance together. Source: www.accesshollywood.com

Happy Birthday Mayo Methot - "Virtue" clip

Humphrey Bogart and his third wife, Mayo Methot, circa 1941.


"Virtue" (1932) - "Rotten Break" clip video

Veteran hustler Lil (Mayo Methot) offers living space and general advice to recently-arrested Mae (Carole Lombard) in "Virtue" directed by Edward Buzzell, scripted by Robert Riskin (screenplay), based on a story by Ethel Hill.

"Virtue" is also notable for supporting roles by the aforementioned Ward Bond (who would soon become a regular fixture in the films of director John Ford) and Mayo Methot as Lil, a madam with a weakness for no-good thugs, who comes to Mae's aid in the end (Methot would become Humphrey Bogart's first wife in 1938). The film is photographed by the great Joseph Walker (a four-time Oscar® nominee for such films as You Can't Take It with You [1938] and Only Angels Have Wings [1939]) Source: www.tcm.com

Jake Gyllenhaal in "Source Code" and cop drama "End of Watch" announced

New Stills of Jake Gyllenhaal as Colter Stevens in "Source Code" (2011)

"For a while back there it looked liked Duncan Jones' second movie would be a sci-fi tapering close to the Blade Runner-stylings of Ridley Scott. Source Code, though, got in ahead of the Berlin-set Mute and has more of a Scott Jr. feel to it. Tony would be happy with this scene which introduces the prickly chemistry between Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Christina (Michelle Monaghan) without sacrificing the sense that something important is about to explode". Source: www.empireonline.com

"David Ayer is set to write and direct cop drama "End of Watch" with Jake Gyllenhaal in early discussions to star. Ayer and John Lesher will produce through Ayer's Crave Films and Lesher's Le Grisbi Prods. Plot details are vague; pic's being described as a gritty drama that follows the friendship between longtime partners.
Ayer is no stranger to this genre, having already penned scripts for "Training Day", "S.W.A.T." and the Christian Bale vehicle "Harsh Times", which Ayer wrote and directed. He most recently directed Keanu Reeves in "Street Kings."
Gyllenhaal has been beefing up his action-hero status, starring in Disney's "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" last summer. He has Summit's sci-fi thriller "Source Code" coming this month.

As first reported by Variety, Gyllenhaal has been mentioned as a contender for the lead in "The Bourne Legacy", the latest rendition of the Universal franchise (Daily Variety, Feb. 25)". Source: www.variety.com

"Source Code" and "The Singularity is near" pics & extracts

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan as Colter Stevens and Christina in "Source Code" (2011), directed by Duncan Jones

Still of Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright in Source Code (2011)

Chapter Four: Achieving the Software of Human Intelligence: How to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain

"I estimate the compressed genome at about thirty to one hundred million bytes; this is smaller than the object code for Microsoft Word and much smaller than the source code".
"Wolfram goes on to describe how simple computational mechanisms can exist in nature at different levels, and he shows that these simple and deterministic mechanisms can produce all of the complexity that we see and experience. He makes the point that computation is essentially simple and ubiquitous. The repetitive application of simple computational transformations, according to Wolfram, is the true source of complexity in the world".
Information, Order, and Evolution: The Insights from Wolfram and Fredkin's Cellular Automata:

"We see information at every level of existence. Every form of human knowledge and artistic expression—scientific and engineering ideas and designs, literature, music, pictures, movies—can be expressed as digital information. Our brains also operate digitally, through discrete firings of our neurons. The wiring of our interneuronal connections can be digitally described, and the design of our brains is specified by a surprisingly small digital genetic code. Indeed, all of biology operates through linear sequences of 2-bit DNA base pairs, which in turn control the sequencing of only twenty amino acids in proteins. Within the atom, electrons take on discrete energy levels. Other subatomic particles, such as protons, comprise discrete numbers of valence quarks. In his book A New Kind of Science, Wolfram offers a comprehensive analysis of how the processes underlying a mathematical construction called "a cellular automaton" have the potential to describe every level of our natural world".

-extracts from "The Singularity is near" book by Raymond Kurzweil

Robert Pattinson talks on Kristen Stewart and Charlie Sheen in Vanity Fair

Scans of Robert Pattinson in Vanity Fair magazine, April 2011 issue

"Pattinson tells the April issue of Vanity Fair that the attention surrounding his real-life romance with his onscreen love interest has put a strain on their relationship.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart attending a preview of Twilight in Beverly Hills, CA on 7th November, 2008

"It's just very traumatic", the 24-year-old Brit complains. "When this is over, the media will lose interest. There'll be nothing to say. It won't fit into a headline anymore. It won't fit into a template."
Even before their secretive romance began, Pattinson admits he was a fan of Stewart's body of work.

"Kristen is very focused on being an actress. I mean, that's what she is -- she's an actress. Whereas I...I just don't really know," the actor admits of his 20-year-old flame.
"She's cool. Even before I knew her I thought she was a really good actress. Like, I saw Into the Wild, and I thought she was really good in that," he reaves. "I still think there are very few girls in her class that are as good as she is."
His private life aside, Pattinson also admits to having an unlikely fondness for Charlie Sheen.
"I like crazy people who don't give a f***", he explains, adding that he's a fan of the 45-year-old actor's "little escapades."

"I never change the channel in my trailer. I just watch reruns of House of Payne and Two and a Half Men. I love Cops -- I think it's my favorite TV show," he laughs. "God, I sound like such a loser." Source: www.usmagazine.com