The box office has been hoppin? all summer long, and this weekend brings three new, highly-anticipated films.
The first flick is a comedy called, ?Crazy, Stupid, Love? and features Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone and Marisa Tomei, and revolves around a father whose life unravels while dealing with a marital crisis.
Secondly, ?The Smurfs? are back in action with a big screen family film starring big names such as Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara and Katy Perry.
Lastly, Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig star as cowboys in the action/sci-fi/thriller called ?Cowboys & Aliens.?
This week brought us just another reminder of the power of Twitter to promote events. We?ve seen screaming Justin Bieber fans nearly trample each other after a tweet was sent revealing his whereabouts, but so far this is the first instant rave created by the micro-blogging service. DJ Kaskade had planned to show up at a film premiere in style. Rent a flatbed truck, pile a few PA speakers on board, then spin records live in the street. The idea was to get some energy going for the fans before he slipped into the premiere. I guess the path to hell is paved by good intentions. Just before the appearance, he tweeted a simple message: ?ME+BIG SPEAKERS+MUSIC=BLOCK PARTY!!!” That formula almost led to disaster. When fans learned that the DJ would be outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for what they thought would be a ?block party,? they started pouring in. Here?s how the DJ?s manager described the build-up: ?In two minutes there were 100 people, in three minutes there were 1,000 people, and by the time he got to the corner of Hollywood and Highland there were 3,000 people around me. Cars couldn’t go anywhere.? LAPD eventually showed up in full [...]
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TMZ got its hands on a copy of the official wedding invitation, which reveals that the reality star, 30, will tie the knot with NBA player Kris Humphries, 26, on Aug. 20 in Montecito, Calif.
The embossed invitation was sent by Kim's mom and stepdad, Kris and Bruce Jenner, and notes that the wedding will be strictly black tie. And if it's anything like her younger sister Khloe's wedding to Lakers player Lamar Odom, it will an over-the-top, extravagant affair -- and Mama Jenner only had nine days to plan that one!
'I think we're bringing the Western to a younger audience in a major way,' star says. By Sterling Wong, with reporting by Eric Ditzian
Olivia Wilde in "Cowboys and Aliens" Photo: Universal Pictures
Olivia Wilde is no stranger to big-budget productions — she did, after all, star in last year's "Tron: Legacy." But the actress is adamant about the fact that her latest blockbuster, this Friday's much-anticipated "Cowboys & Aliens," is not like any other that has come before this summer.
"We are not a sequel, and we are not a superhero movie," Wilde explained to MTV News, undoubtedly referring to the string of well-known franchise movies that have come our way thus far this summer, from sequels to "Harry Potter" and "Transformers" to comic book fare like "Thor" and "Captain America." "So we're an original piece of material and that's really rare this summer."
OK, it's no superhero movie, but "Cowboys" is based on a comic book. Still, Wilde emphasized that the plot isn't exactly derivative. "Even though our title is based on a comic book, we're not actually a comic book movie. The story is completely original," Wilde noted. "Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who wrote 'Star Trek,' wrote this story from scratch, just using the idea of the 'Cowboys & Aliens' comic book as inspiration."
Another way that "Cowboys & Aliens" stands out from the pack is the way it pays homage to a classic genre. "I think we're bringing the Western to a younger audience in a major way, which I think is really exciting, because I love Westerns, and I'm happy to introduce this genre to a bunch of people," Wilde said.
Of course, no good Western is complete without its rugged leading men. "We have Daniel Craig, who I think embodied Steve McQueen in this role," the actress gushed. "He's so badass it's unbelievable, and I think he's really, really smart and interesting in this role, and I think Harrison Ford pulls out his best performance in years. He's incredibly moving, and also very funny."
Kat Von D's Good Day, L.A. interview was over before it started. The L.A. Ink star stormed off the set on Wednesday after the show's hosts commented on her recent breakup with Jesse James.
Good Day's hosts Jillian Reynolds and Jeff Michael introduced Von D, who was there to promote the new season of her TLC show, by saying, "She just broke up with fiancé Jesse James, but not before getting a tattoo of his childhood picture."
The next thing they knew, Von D, 29, had hightailed it out of the studio.
"Kat Von D just walked out of the building," Reynolds said minutes later. "I'm sure it's because of the Jesse James stuff, but … she talks about her personal life so much."
Reynolds claims she was not told that the split was off-limits for the interview. But it seems she and Von D were not on the same page, as the tattoo artist later took to her Twitter account to accuse the host of displaying a "lack of compassion [and] respect."
Reynolds quickly shot back in her own defense. "Why was it disrespectful?" she twittered in response. "We said you guys broke up … We showed the clip your publicist sent. It showed you and Jesse. Were we not supposed to mention you broke up?"
But Von D stuck to her guns and claimed it was the "disrespectful intro you guys 'snuck' in" that sent her packing. "Publicly disrespecting people for the sake of better ratings isn't something a person of compassion does," she wrote. "Good day."
Later that night, Von D posted a long, heartfelt manifesto on her Facebook page, titled "What Can I Say? I Suck," where she explained her feelings about her failed relationship and addressed why she walked out on the interview.
"Most of the time I’m good at rolling with the punches when things don't go as planned," she wrote. "But somehow, I allowed today to get the best of me...The accumulation of things this past year have been challenging in so many ways, but for the most part I found it easy to stay positive through it. At times I even surprised myself at how resilient I was to a lot of these challenges...Today was really hard for me. And no one's to blame other than myself. Never planned on walking away from this relationship, let alone the timing of things."
"Although my intentions were never to offend or hurt anyone’s feelings, this isn't an apology for walking out on a silly morning show interview this morning," she continued. "And this isn’t an attempt at justifying anything either. I don't expect people to understand, just like I can't expect myself to be able to please everyone at all times."
Watch how the whole went down on Good Day, L.A. here:
