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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Jake flirting with Kirsten Dunst back?

Jake Gyllenhaal in GQ magazine photoshoot, pictures
Session #30 courtesy of
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Jake Gyllenhaal with Rachel McAdams at 82nd Annual Academy Awards on 7th March, 2010.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon at Vanity Fair Oscar Party on 22nd February, 2009.

"Now that his ex, Reese Witherspoon, is seeing new boyfriend Jim Toth (who has already said he'd like to MARRY her), is Jake Gyllenhaal finding comfort in the arms of his ex, Kirsten Dunst? Both are in Montreal right now. Jake is working on the Duncan Jones project Source Code, while Kirsten is working with Jim Sturgess on Upside Down.

Screencaps of Kirsten Dunst in music video "Turning Japanese".

Observant tweeters have spotted the pair more than a few times shopping and having dinner together already".
Source: www.sugarscape.com

"Dunst has developed a curious relationship with Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami, with whom she collaborated last August on a short art film. Directed by McG, it follows Dunst in a blue wig and full majokko costume, cavorting on the streets of Tokyo while screaming the lyrics to the 1980 Vapors hit “Turning Japanese.” For Dunst, it was a rare moment of wackiness. For the artist, it was his first collaboration with a Hollywood icon. “I thought to myself, So this is a real actress,” says Murakami. “The minute McG yelled ‘Action!’ her entire face would change. She would completely transform herself, from the actress Kirsten to the Akihabara Majokko Princess. I was truly astonished.” In turn, Dunst was shocked that a megastar of the art world could be quite so gracious. “I was just so surprised by how kind and humble he was,” she recalls. “I usually think artists are complicated by ego. But he giggles like a little kid and gets so excited.”
Kirsten Dunst at "Opening Ceremony" Boutique Opening, The Ace Hotel, New York on 13th February 2010.
This winter, Dunst wrapped Bastard, a short film she produced, directed, and plans to submit to the Tribeca Film Festival. It stars her friends Lukas Haas, Juno Temple, and Joel David Moore, but Dunst remains tight-lipped about its subject matter, saying only that the film is “a two thousand-year-old religious tale told in a modern way.” It was filmed in the desert, and a baby was involved, but don’t expect The Passion of the Christ. Bastard is decidedly less literal. “I didn’t want to shoot the desert in a desert-y way, but more in a Woody Allen way,” the actress explains. “And we took a lot of inspiration from Paris, Texas.” Source: vmagazine.com

Monday, March 15, 2010

Rock & Baseball Stadium


In "The Crazies", Sheriff Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) finds Rory walking onto the baseball field in the middle of the baseball season opener game. The Crazies is a science fiction, horror thriller, a remake of George A. Romero's 1973 film of the same name. Romero's original version of "The Crazies" revealed a social commentary on the Vietnam War's consequences.

Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus in "Zombieland" (2009).

Toby Sells is a make-up FX artist who has worked in both movies, "Zombieland" (2009) and "The Crazies" (2010).

Joan Jett, The Runaways's make-up chief and Kristen Stewart.

Kristen Stewart (who falls in love with an undead vampire, Robert Pattinson's Edward Cullen in "Twilight") worked with Jesse Eisenberg in "Adventureland" by Greg Mottola, and one of her latest challenges onscreen has been playing Joan Jett, leader of 70's all-female-band "The Runaways".


Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways. In Theaters March 19th!

Cherie Currie, with her signature Bowie haircut, was The Runaways' lead singer. The band got a few hit songs and platinum albums, while touring around the world right before glam-rock and punk anticipated the 'stadium rock' that was widely accepted in the late 70's. David Bowie offered first extravagant stage performances, then rock with theatre and choreography over world tours. The Glass Spider tour, which began at the Stadion Feijenoord, Rotterdam, seen by three million people, was the culmination of his stadium concept.

The word stadium originates from the Greek word/mesure "stadion" (στάδιον). The oldest known stadium is in Olympia, Greece, where the Olympic Games were held since 776 BC.

Palladion: a statue of Pallas Athena believed to protect Troy, from Old French, from Latin Palladium, from Greek Palladion.

"The Runaways" Baseball T-Shirt.

In many cases, an American football stadium has been constructed adjacent to a baseball park. The Yankee Stadium was built on a triangular city block in The Bronx, New York City. This resulted in an assymetrical dimension. Before the modern design of football stadia in the United States, many baseball parks, including Fenway Park, the Polo Grounds, Wrigley Field, Tiger Stadium, Griffith Stadium, Forbes Field, Yankee Stadium, etc. were used by the American Football League.


Clip featuring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning arriving to Japan in "The Runaways".

In order to help a stadium maintenance, many American and European sports teams have sold the rights to the name of the facility. This trend began in the 1970s and corporate sponsors became the norm in the last decade. The Nippon Professional Baseball league of Japan, emulating the US system, named many of their teams after their parent corporations. This new trend in corporate naming is easily distinguishable from some of the older parks named Crosley Field, Wrigley Field, etc.
The Wrigley Field. Wrigley Field Tickets

It's named after William Wrigley Jr.'s chewing gum magnate. In 29th July 2008 the Wrigley Field hosted, for the first time in its history, a minor league game. Over 32,000 fans were present for the historic contest. The ballpark was featured in a scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and in the opening scene of "The Break-up" starred by Jennifer Aniston.

The Masters Tickets: The legendary Augusta National is the result of a collaboration between Bobby Jones and golf Architect Alister MacKenzie. It's one of the most storied and exclusive golf clubs in the world. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, designed by Alister MacKenzie on the site of a former indigo plantation, the club opened for play in January 1933. Since 1934 it has played host to the annual Masters Tournament, one of the four major championships in professional golf. It is currently ranked the number one course in Golf Digest's list of America's 100 greatest courses.

Fenway Park is one of the oldest ballparks in Major League Baseball, home of the Boston Red Sox. Fenway Park Tickets
Every Red Sox home game since May 15, 2003, has sold out; in 2008, the park sold out its 456th consecutive Red Sox game, breaking a Major League record. Beginning in 2006, the Red Sox have hosted the "Futures at Fenway" event, where two of their minor-league affiliates play a regular-season doubleheader. The most recent minor-league game held at Fenway had been the Eastern League All-Star Game in 1977. The 2007 game featured Lowell and the Portland Sea Dogs, with both teams winning. The 37-foot-high left-field wall at Fenway Park, known affectionately as the Green Monster, dates back to 1947. In honor of the famed wall, the Red Sox mascot is a furry green monster, named Wally.

Robert Pattinson talked on the red carpet about "Remember Me"

Robert Pattinson filming "Bel Ami" in London.










“There was something so powerful about it, when I first read the script,” Pattison told On The Red Carpet’s George Pennacchio (who was pretty under the weather at the time). “I didn’t want it to be compromised in any way… So I said anything I can do… if anyone tries to mess around with it, I want to do my bit to protect it.”

It turns out he’s pretty comfortable in the producer’s chair, “I’d love to do a film as a producer right from the beginning. I’m hoping to do that over the next few years.”
Robert Pattinson as Tyler in "Remember Me".

Pattinson also said he’s proud of the movie’s message, and how the ending makes the audience think.

“I don’t want to make something just for entertainment value,” he joked. “I don’t find myself very entertaining.”

Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes split

Jake Gyllenhaal and Kate Winslet attending the Pre-Golden Globes Party 2005.
Sam Mendes, Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard at "Jarhead" Hollywood Screening.
"Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has split from her film director husband Sam Mendes, a British law firm said Monday.
The 34-year-old star separated from Mendes at an unspecified point earlier this year, Shillings law firm said. It wasn't clear whether divorce proceedings have begun. The pair have been married since 2003 and have two children.
In a statement e-mailed to journalists, the law firm said the split was "entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement."
Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic" (1997).Kate "inslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Revolutionary Road" (2008).

"Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children," the statement said.

Kate Winslet receiving her Oscar for "The Reader" at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.

Winslet won the Academy Award for best actress for her dramatic role in "The Reader" in 2009. It was the first Oscar win for Winslet, who had been nominated five other times for her roles in "Titanic," "Sense and Sensibility", "Iris", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Little Children."

Mendes, an acclaimed stage and film director, won the coveted best director Oscar for "American Beauty."
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Eclipse - Real Exclusive Sneak Peek from DVD


The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - Real Exclusive Sneak Peek from DVD. This clip will be available on the Walmart release of ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’.

She & Him Volume 2 Stream

"For such a mild-mannered and ingratiating indie-pop duo, She and Him sure is polarizing. That division is what happens when a ubiquitous singer-songwriter (M. Ward) teams up with a quintuply ubiquitous, egregiously doe-eyed, vaguely quirky film actress (Zooey Deschanel).Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Zooey Deschanel in "500 Days of Summer" (2009).

It's a recipe for skepticism, before the "play" button has even been pressed.
In songs such as "Home" Deschanel pines for a lover, but she still sounds like she's singing through a smile. As a result, Volume Two — available here for streaming in its entirety until its release on March 23 — isn't exactly dragging listeners through a complex emotional hellride.
It's more confection than confessional, but it's a kind-natured one; the audio equivalent of a spring breeze that wafts in at a perfect time."

Listen to She & Him Volume 2

Stream of She & Him songs

Joan Jett impressed by Kristen Stewart's performance

Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett on the set of "The Runaways".

-Hi Joan. So how did you feel the first time you saw the film and saw someone else playing you?
-I'm not so sure I can actually describe it. I was on set every day, watching a monitor, so it wasn't as shocking to me as if I had never seen it. But I was watching Kristen [Stewart, who plays Jett] be me everyday. I was hanging out with her and was around her as she was in character, so I don't think it was such a jolt when I finally saw it, because I was a little bit prepared. I was very impressed. She embodied me as much as possible.
-What kind of direction did you give Kristen?
Kristen Stewart in "Dazed & Confused" magazine, photoshoot by David Sherry.

-When you're you, it's kind of hard to direct someone how to be you. She had her own methods. I could tell that she was really watching me, really listening to me.Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Joan Jett at 'The Runaways' Los Angeles Premiere Afterparty - March 11 2010.

As far as direction, I just wanted her to feel free enough and close enough to me that she could ask me whatever she wanted. We did talk a lot and she would have various questions whether it was about an accent or about something The Runaways went through. I thought we were a lot a like, energetically and the way she is. And I thought there was a lot she did just naturally.
So I told her, 'Listen, just relax into it and be assured that if there is something that is way off base, I'm going to come to you and mention it, but I want you to relax and follow your instincts. And whatever you think I might do, or whatever you would do, just do it.' She needed to be able to relax and not think I was judging her on every movement. And I wasn't. I just tried to stay out of the way, really".
Source: blog.urbanoutfitters.com


Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning talk to host Andrew Freund about "The Runaways."


The Queen of Rock n' roll Joan Jett From "Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth" Cherry Bomb.


"With "Twilight" star Stewart portraying Jett in "The Runaways" movie, the upcoming comic promises to offer yet another take on the popular singer's life and career.

"Rock 'N' Roll Comics: Joan Jett and the Runaways" will hit shelves in June 2010 and is written by Spike Steffenhagen and Jay Allen Sanford, with interior art by Joe Paradise and Larry Nadolsky, and a cover by Michal Szyksznian that you can get your first look at here.
Rock 'N' Roll Comics: Joan Jett and the Runaways
32 pages $3.99
Writer: Spike Steffenhagen, Jay Allen Sanford
Pencils: Joe Paradise, Larry Nadolsky
Cover Artist(s): Michal Szyksznian

"Rock 'N' Roll Comics, Joan Jett” She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock N' Roll". This one shot tells about her life from when she was in the “Runaways” to when she broke off to her iconic solo career".
Source: splashpage.mtv.com

"Holy Rollers" director Kevin Asch videos


Roundtable Discussion: Music and Film, The Creative Process
KEVIN ASCH ( Director "Holy Rollers")


Al Pacino inspired short film directed by Kevin Asch; starring Danny A., Sara Foster, Lukas Haas, Tatiana Fontes; written by Kevin Asch & Michael Knowles.


Meet the Artists: Kevin Asch on "Holy Rollers" Sundance Film Festival 2010

"Remember Me" director Allen Coulter and Will Fetters screenwriter video


"Remember Me" director Allen Coulter and Will Fetters screenwriter talks about the film:

How difficult is it for them to talk about the movie without revealing too much
How did the film change as it was getting made
What can fans expect on the DVD - Allen Coulter talks about how the studio wanted a scene back in that he originally cut out
They talk about the commentaries that will be on the DVD
Source: www.collider.com

Remember Me Tyler gets pissed at his Dad (Robert Pattinson


Remember Me - Tyler gets pissed at his Dad (Robert Pattinson)

Taylor Lautner Is Flying High In "New Moon"


Taylor Lautner shows off his mad skills in this behind the scenes look at his “New Moon” stunt sequence. Coming to DVD March 20.