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In other news I have a baseball bat, a lot of time, and a burning desire to talk Ridley out of this. - Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce

I'm withholding judgement until I actually see Prometheus, but if it is as good as it looks I shall apologize to Ridley Scott for the bat crack. - Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce

So pretty! - Katy S

"Waiting on a Paramount lot dressed in Salvation Army clothes and a skirt her mother had made, Los Angeles native Hailee Steinfeld was in full character as Mattie Ross, the determined young heroine of the classic 1969 Western True Grit, which is getting a re-do from Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men). Steinfeld, a child model, beat out nearly 15,000 girls for her first major role, opposite Jeff Bridges as the reluctant hero Rooster Cogburn (the part that won John Wayne his only Oscar), Matt Damon as his rival, and Josh Brolin as the heavy. “Just watching them taught me a lot,” says Steinfeld, who turns 14 this month. “I learned more from their actions than from their words.” Her on-set education was not entirely age-appropriate, however—she learned not only how to fire a gun but also how to hand-roll a cigarette. “Jeff gave me this little tip on how to make it easier, and I would go home and just constantly roll cigarettes all night.” How did being in a major movie... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Fans of Tim Burton’s films have come to treasure the scores by composer Danny Elfman as an essential part of the viewing experience. For the most diehard enthusiasts, Warner Bros. has released a special limited-edition package, “The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box,” to commemorate the partners’ creative collaboration. Available only by ordering at ElfmanBurton.com, the set includes expanded versions of all 13 of Elfman’s scores from Burton’s films — from 1985′s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” through this year’s “Alice in Wonderland” — plus rare and previously unreleased music from their projects, a DVD featuring an hourlong conversation between Burton and Elfman and a 250-page hardcover book with a foreword written by Johnny Depp, in addition to other collectibles. Elfman recently sat down with Hero Complex writer Gina McIntyre to discuss in detail how the collection came together, how his relationship with Burton had evolved over the years and what it’s like to reflect on a shared legacy amassed over a quarter of a century." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Thanks, Jeremy - RAPatton

"Here it is: the full-length trailer for Green Lantern. And unlike the disjointed glimpse we saw the other day, it gives a much better look at Hal Jordan's epic journey. Plus more aliens and crazy action! So at first glance, in higher resolution, it definitely looks as though the CG in this trailer is still a little rough, as people were saying over the weekend. On the other hand, if any comic-book movie ever deserved to look cartoony, it would be Green Lantern. The trailer includes our first glimpses of Abin Sur, Sinestro, Kilowog and Hector Hammond — pre- and post- brain embiggening. And you can see how Hal Jordan goes from irresponsible hotshot pilot to a man with the biggest responsibility in the world. Plus just like in the Geoff Johns comics, it's not about being without fear — it's about being someone who can overcome fear." - RAPatton

I thought First Flight was pretty weak actually. Regardless of whether or not the movie will be any good, the book is still consistently well written. - James Ferguson

Like it :D - Saman ツ

"Amanda Seyfried had a rather rough time on set as she began shooting her latest film I'm Mortal. The 24-year-old actress, who was almost unrecognisable in a short red wig, looked battered and bruised as was pushed around by her co-star Justin Timberlake, 29, on the LA set. She had cuts to her face, arm and ankle - no doubt the handiwork of the film's make-up department." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Aliens descend onto the major cities and start just hoovering people up, in the awesomely crazy new film Skyline. But the new trailer reveals more of the mayhem, including deadly tentacles. And check out some new death-orgy-tastic images. You have to love the carnage. And the blue face-cracking. This movie is like Independence Day with an extra helping of crazy. And hopefully less Apple." - RAPatton

this genre turned into comedy with "Independence Day", and isn't going to revert. - 9000

Penny at 10 Months - Don't forget to vote for Penny for Gerber Baby! Only 5 days left. http://www.gerber.com/photo... - Rachel Lea Fox

Thanks MaryB! I also wish I could emphasize the power of negative space. I did crop that one side photo of Penny, but I also added more white space to the side. It gives it more flow and more pop. Crop to the part you want and then don't be afraid to add negative space even if it really wasn't there. - Rachel Lea Fox

"Let me get straight to the point: Go and pay to see Scott Pilgrim right now. Why, you ask? Well, check out last weekend’s box-office totals. See Scott Pilgrim? Keep looking—it’s down there at No. 10. It made only $5 million dollars in its second weekend of release, a 53 percent drop from the first weekend, with a total domestic gross of $20 million. That’s not good. (Trust me when I say “not good”: Universal not only spent a lot making this, it spent a lot marketing it. They had to market the hell out of it because it was something you probably hadn’t heard about before—you know, the way movies used to be.) The film’s dismal performance is pretty disheartening for anyone who’s a fan of the new, as opposed to the stale, trite, and cliche, because whatever Scott Pilgrim is, it is definitely not stale, trite, or cliche." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Went to go see this on the weekend w/my best friend and really enjoyed it (well, apart from spending the whole movie wanting to punch the main character in the junk). The theater was pretty full, and everyone seemed to have a great time. - Jennifer Dittrich

Wow, they came through fast for once. This is Ammy & Erik's Engagement photos. - Rachel Lea Fox

Thanks Aden! I love that one too! - Rachel Lea Fox

"We all remain mystified by the ending of Christopher Nolan's Inception. It's the kind of mind-frak most directors only wish they could pull off. But did the movie's costume designer just give away the secret of what really happens? Spoilers! New York Magazine's Vulture blog noticed this telltale exchange in an interview with costume designer Jeffrey Kurland: How much does costume reflect the inner machinations of the plot, particularly in a film such as Inception? For example, Cobb's children are wearing the same clothes at the end of the story as they are in his dream 'memory' throughout the film. Is there something to be interpreted here? Costume design reflects greatly on the movement of the plot, most significantly through character development. Character development is at the forefront of costume design. The characters move the story along and with the director and the actor the costume designer helps to set the film's emotional tone in a visual way. In a more physical sense the... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

The wedding ring convinced me he was awake - Alex Scrivener

"These days, the term "young Hollywood" conjures up images of pouty, plastic starlets being chased down Robertson Boulevard by paparazzi and probation officers, but recently the soulful side of young Hollywood made an appearance at a corner deli on Franklin Avenue. "Hi Joe," Ellen Page said with a faraway smile as Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave her a hug. Page and Gordon-Levitt are costars in Christopher Nolan's "Inception," the perception-bending heist movie that opens Friday amid high expectations and strong early reviews. Leonardo DiCaprio leads an extremely deep cast — there are seven Oscar nominees in the film — but Nolan says that Page and Gordon-Levitt more than held their own. "They were simply outstanding," the director said, "their performances are key to the film and some of the best work I've seen." But more than their work in any single film, Gordon-Levitt and Page are interesting because, in an era when vacuous celebrity and recycled concepts are ascendent, they are talented... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Gordon-Levitt, 29, grew up in Sherman Oaks and, from age 15 to 20, in front of America, thanks to "3rd Rock From the Sun," the loopy alien sitcom that ran for six seasons. With considerable trepidation, he left the cast and acting to pursue studies at Columbia University. The time in New York propelled him back toward acting in 2004 with a resolve to work only in high-quality and indie... more... - RAPatton

"Page, a Nova Scotia native with bird bones and a steady gaze, made her screen debut at age 10 in a Canadian television movie and turned 23 a week after this St. Valentine's Day. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as a pregnant high school student in the 2007 film "Juno" and before that startled audiences in the 2005 movie "Hard Candy," in which she portrays a teenager who traps and tortures a man she suspects is a sexual predator." - RAPatton

brilliant interpretation - Pokai

"How to save Knight and Day? The film, which by many accounts is a perfectly entertaining summer action blockbuster, is tracking miserably as it heads into its first week, and Fox is scrambling to do all it can to pump up its initial grosses: Earlier this month it pushed the film's opening date up from Friday, June 25th to Wednesday, June 23rd, hoping to accumulate some good, uncontested word of mouth before heading into a weekend battle against Adam Sandlers's Grown Ups. And then the studio decided to show sneak previews of the film in 500 theaters this Saturday night to work up even more buzz. All of this is in the hope that the quality of the film can overcome what looks like one of the film's biggest handicaps: its star, Tom Cruise." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

Great movie, caught it last night with the family. Funny and lots of action. It didn't make me think of Mr&Mrs Smith. - mandyvan from iPhone

I love when i get to steal her for some quality time! - Rachel Lea Fox

"After a wildly prolific decade of screenwriting and directing that made him the king of teen comedy, John Hughes receded from the cinematic landscape, his legend preserved by the classic 80s trilogy of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Following Hughes’s sudden death, at age 59, last summer, the author delves into his intense connections and sudden breaks with his Brat Pack actors, as well as the essential anomaly of his brief Hollywood reign." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"John Hughes never stopped writing. He was notorious for this trait, especially in the 1980s, when he churned out screenplays faster than Hollywood could make them into movies. The script for Sixteen Candles came forth in a two-day burst during the 1983 preparations for The Breakfast Club, so impressing his studio overseers that it jumped the line to become Hughes’s directorial debut,... more... - RAPatton

"The notebook that Hughes was carrying with him when he died, a red Smythson Panama, contained no new entry for August 6, though August 5 was filled with a detailed description of the hotel—as if setting the scene in a screenplay—and warm notes about his visit with his grandson. The family also recovered the camera that Hughes had been carrying on his last walk. It contained a few... more... - RAPatton

"Best Picture * “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers * “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined * “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers * “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers * “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined * “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer * “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers * “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers * “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer * “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers " - RAPatton

Basterds gets my vote, though I haven't seen An Education, Precious, or A Serious Man. Oh, haven't seen Blind Side either, but I don't think I have to to rule it out. - Tinfoil 2.0

"It is, when you think about it, the quintessential American name. Totally classless, it could belong to a farm boy, or a President. The perfect name for a brand - the two syllables, like Kodak or Pepsi, lending themselves to a particular rhythmic cadence, and graphic symmetry, picked out on advertisements, perfume bottles and clothes labels. Has any fashion designer ever been as much the embodiment of their own product as Tom Ford, firstly as creative director of Gucci, and now as the man behind his eponymous fashion label? The sartorial exactitude, the air of self-sacrifice to the rituals of ruthless grooming and perfect body shape - this is a man who once described himself as having been on a diet since he was 13. 'My image is a tool’, Ford says. 'I look at it as ruthlessly as I look at a picture in an ad - that’s wrong, that’s wrong. I realise its selling power and its potential - the brand personified. But it’s not me...’ Tom Ford has homes in Los Angeles and New Mexico, although... more... - RAPatton

"But what he really wanted to do, he says, was fulfill his life-time ambition of making a film. He started his own production company, Fade to Black, and started scouting around for scripts. After 18 months he had found nothing he liked, until driving alone one day his mind suddenly went back to a book he had first read more than twenty five years earlier, Christopher Isherwood’s novel... more... - RAPatton

"He owns a ranch in New Mexico - 24,000 acres, bigger than Manhattan, so big 'I can’t see anything of the 20th century in any direction’. 'The older I get’, he says, 'the more time I want to spend there. So it’s either be a monk, live there forever, ride my horses, plant my garden, watch it grow. Or... I don’t know.... But I have come to terms with...’ The sentence peters out into a thoughtful silence. Being phenomenally wealthy? Ford doesn’t miss a beat. 'Oh, I’ve earned every penny.’" - RAPatton

"As they relaxed in the dimly lighted lounge, awaiting the sold-out screening of "Invictus," Stephen Galloway and his wife, Tina, were perusing the menu between sips of champagne. A waiter had just brought a chilled $49 bottle of Schramsberg sparkling wine and was ready for their order. Tina was contemplating the $14 plate of fried calamari with ginger and lemon, while Stephen had a hankering for the $19 New York strip steak sandwich. The Galloways are hardly high rollers -- he's a property manager and she's a social worker. Still, the Pasadena couple were more than willing to fork over $29 each for a movie ticket, on top of the bill for champagne and finger food. "We've never experienced anything like this," Tina said of the Pasadena movie house, which opened this month. Forget Milk Duds and popcorn. Welcome to the movie theater industry's equivalent of the first-class tourist cabin: the luxury theater." - RAPatton

AMC's Cinema Suites use the same concept. We went to the AMC Mainstreet 6 in Kansas City. It's the most amazing movie going experience I've ever had. $25 bucks a head but they give you a $15 dollar food voucher per ticket. They have a lot of food on the menu for under $15 so you're basically getting the food thrown in for free. - DB, Just DB #TeamMonique

is it true that they used an overhead & transparencies for the press conference? Someone just told me that in a kind of 'can-you-believe-that' tone ! - viki saigal

I like the FriendFeed Duck better ;-) - Jesse Stay

"Critics have heaped praise on Avatar, the new epic film by Oscar-winning director James Cameron, calling it a worthy successor to his 1997 blockbuster Titanic While official reviews are not supposed to be out until next week, the film's world premiere on Thursday night prompted one reviewer to declare Cameron "king of the world", on Friday, while another said it marked the dawn of a new film era. "Avatar is an overwhelming, immersive spectacle," wrote The Times newspaper's reviewer, giving it four out of five stars. "The state-of-the-art 3D technology draws us in, but it is the vivid weirdness of Cameron's luridly imagined tropical otherworld that keeps us fascinated," he added. The Guardian newspaper called the technology "formidable" and the effects "remarkable", adding that reporters at a preview screening "were left in no doubt that James Cameron's sci-fi blockbuster was a step beyond anything they had seen before". The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a titanic... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Only seen Titanic once. On the big screen. Did not hate it despite annoying characters and ham fisted acting. Good melodrama. - Adrian from Android