Where has the world gone to when a company like ABC “Family” hires Lindsay Lohan to star in a film about a smoking, pregnant girl, who is not pregnant, but only saying she is pregnant to keep her job? Hell in a hand basket.
Sunday is the premier of “Labor Pains” a movie that was slated to debut in theaters, but that was when Warner Bros. was involved. Warner dropped out and Disney dropped in, saving the film and at least giving it a chance to see the light of day, all be it that light is on the ABC Family channel.
Shockingly produced by heavy-hitter Rick Schwartz, (“The Aviator” and “The Departed,”) the film is low budget to say the least, which may be the method to the madness as Lohan most likely worked for peanuts, Schwartz reportedly admitting the entire movie only cost an estimated $1 million to make. At the cost of most high-end music videos, Schwartz may have some wiggle room to make a profit.
The lovely Raven Symone! Did she? Didn’t She? Disney kids are growing up so quick! Raven was great in Dr. Doolittle with Eddie Murphy. I was so surprised to learn that Ms. Symone might now be a first time mother.
Rumors are flying around the web (most notably here) that Raven gave birth to this little bundle of joy:
Raven's Baby
Awwww, she’s pretty cute huh? No one is officially saying anything but I’m sure Raven will talk about her new child whenever she’s ready. She’s a full-grown adult capable of making her own decisions and might want to wait before opening up about her personal life. Regardless, this news should be taken with a little grain of salt.
Apparently, the father is a Mr. Jussie Smollet, who I know absolutely nothing about. Word is that the couple is no longer together, which may be one reason for Raven’s decision to keep things private. Whatever their status is, they sure did make a cute baby.
All good things must come to end. The same is true of Hannah Montana. The immensely popular tween comedy will be ending after its fourth season in 2010, Billy Bush reports. The news comes directly from the father of superstar Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus.
Billy Ray says of his daughter: “She didn’t want it to just end with whatever was the last episode we did. She wanted it to build to where there’s a moral to the story, to where it doesn’t just end and go away and that’s it. She wanted there to be an official ending to ˜Hannah Montana.’“
Season 3 of the show just finished filming, meaning the final season will begin shooting early next year. With both Hannah Montana AND Lost leaving next year, I don’t know how television will survive. Maybe we could combine both shows into one — maybe Hannah Montana knows the secrets of the island.
The Warner Bros. comedy “The Hangover” took in another $33.4 million to remain the top box-office draw for a second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates.
This brings it’s total to $105.4 million after 10 days in theaters making it the summer’s first movie to finish at No. 1 for two weekends in a row.
Disney’s latest hit, the action comedy “Up,” came in a close second again with $30.5 million bringing it’s total gross to $187.2 million.
Debuting at No. 3 with $25 million was Sony’s action remake “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.”The thriller stars Denzel Washington as a dispatcher going toe to toe with John Travolta, a criminal mastermind of a subway hijacking.
Year One and The Proposal will put an end to all this repeat business, but it is slightly saddening to see Eddie Murphy’s “Imagine That” only bring in $5.7 million with a 6th place finish. Pluto Nash, Norbit, and now this major flop,I think it’s time for Eddie to go back to raunchy adult comedy. Delirious or Raw anyone?
Nick Jonas or “Mr. President” his self proclaimed nickname, hit his Twitter up to congratulate the class of 2009.
“I’m happy to announce I have graduated! Class of 09! Congrats to everyone else who has also graduated this year! -Mr. President (Nick)”
Congratulations to Nick for being a 16 year old high school graduate, a multimillionaire in a world reknown pop group and retaining his chastity while rekindling your romance with Miley Cyrus.
Nick Jonas: a manchild of true integrity, self control, and superior wisdom. A word of advice Nick, never take nudie pics or tape yourself doing anything besides playing music, we can’ have any of these killing your progress. You are the Jonas that I vote most likely to succeed after the age of 21. I’m counting on you soldier.
The Hufington Post reports that Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins will star in “John Carter of Mars,” the adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series that Andrew Stanton is directing for Disney.
The role of Carter was considered one of the “gets” for a young actor, and Disney has spent months meeting and testing a wide array of talented actors from Jon Hamm to Josh Duhamel during its search. Canadian-born Kitsch, began building buzz with his starring role on NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” then he booked the role of Gambit in “Wolverine.”
You know usually perfection doesn’t turn me on, but this guy was the most visually stimulating part of “Wolverine” even if that Louisiana accent he wore was a little poor. He reminds me of a present day Matt from the television show “7th Heaven”. I’m so ashamed that I watched that show for a year and change but Matt Camden was one hot preacher boy and that family was so zany with their easily solved problems and their raucous family pets.
Jerry Bruckheimer is hard at work trying to get Pirates of the Caribbean 4 made as soon as possible. Mostly due to the fact that the other “Pirates” films grossed about 38 trillion dollars worldwide. That’s my own estimate. Johnny Depp is returning as Jack Sparrow, Geoffrey Rush, and director Gore Verbinski are also slated to return.
“Disney’s priority is to get Pirates made,” he says. “That’s a great franchise for them and for us too. Beloved, with a great character and Johnny’s really excited about coming back to Captain Jack.”
One can only hope they bring some fresher concepts into the next sequel because there’s only so much the audience can handle of 14 minute scenes of 50 Jack Sparrow clones talking clever gibberish to each other. Perhaps in the next film Sparrow can go on the run with Indiana Jones and they can find the crystal skull which turns out to belong to Walt Disney and along the way Jack Sparrow will find out he has 16 year old son who’s a real hooligan. Mutt Sparrows anyone?
After James Franco bailed on his UCLA commencement speech obligation earlier in the week, soon to be grads started a Facebook petition to get Conan O’Brien, the new host of the Tonight Show, to replace him. The students collected over 2,000 signatures and then Conan dropped a polite bomb with this statement:
“I am honored to be asked but I am so busy launching “The Tonight Show” there just is not enough time to give this speech the preparation it deserves. I wish everyone in the class of 2009 the best and I am honored that they thought of me.”
Wow, so you mean to tell me that a Facebook petition is pointless? Gah. UCLA is striking out and losing some street cred over this. I’m pretty sure they could get the Jonas Brothers. They might be a little young and sans a college degree but they’ll do ANYTHING to sell a few albums lately.
Ay Dios Mio. The Jonas Brothers train is pulling forward to the next stop on the most disastrous publicity tour of 2009. After having their show moved to Sunday night, Joe dancing (poorly) to the Beyonce “Single Ladies” song , they have now brought their mother into the mix. The pop band who blazed up the charts and into the hearts of your kid sister are gracing the cover of the new issue of Good Housekeeping. Yikes. In the interview the Jonas mom, Denise, proceeds to speak about their sexual temptations and succeeds to speak on the behalf of her sons’ abstinence. Here’s an excerpt to illustrate my point.
“They are men. They have desires. They have testosterone,” she says. “If they make a mistake, I’m not going to hate them.”
“I don’t think they are above or below being seduced,” she adds. “I would be foolish if I thought that. They are tested and tested, like every one of us. I pray for them.”
Purity Rings
As for the purity rings Kevin, 21, Joe, 19, and Nick, 16, all wear, Denise says it was a private decision that’s gotten some unwanted attention.
What you are about to watch is awkward and sad with a dash of desperation. Joe Jonas, the most popular of the Jonas, took a bullet for his band of brothers while promoting their upcoming album release. For viral marketing purposes he was forced to put on a leotard and dance to “Single Ladies” by Beyonce. I understand that this worked really well for Justin Timberlake on SNL but that was because all the guys in the sketch really committed to it, it was funnier because they did it well. So please buy the Jonas Brothers new album, “Lines, Vines, and Trying Times” out on June 16th. They really really need it. Check out Joe dancing below and feel my shame.
The Hufington Post reports that Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins will star in “John Carter of Mars,” the adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series that Andrew Stanton is directing for Disney.
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