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Exclusive Media has signed a three-year deal with Cross Creek Pictures to finance, develop and produce at least two films a year.

The two companies will split financing, production and development evenly, aiming for budgets up to $65 million.

Cross Creek will control domestic distribution through its deal with Universal Pictures. Exclusive Media will hold its international rights.

The first film under this long-term agreement will be “A Walk Among the Tombstones,” a thriller starring Liam Neeson as an unlicensed private detective hired to find the kidnapped wife of a drug dealer. The former NYPD cop and recovering alcoholic must conquer and harness his own demons to track down the kidnappers.

Scott Frank, who wrote and directed "The Lookout" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, will do the same for this project.

Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher of Double Features Films are producing with Danny Devito’s Jersey Films.

 ‘“We feel like we won the trifecta by getting the one star who is perfect for Scott’s great script that he was born to direct,” Shamberg and Sher said in a statement.

The film will begin production next February in New York.

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If Jay Leno didn't watch Conan O'Brien's appearance on "The Late Show With David Letterman" last night, his ears had to be burning, as he was the two late-night hosts' favorite topic of conversation and mocking.

Alternately sharing their impersonations of the "Tonight Show" host — for the record, O'Brien does a much better Leno — Letterman and O'Brien also discussed O'Brien's pre-"Tonight Show" fiasco relationship with Leno.

"Did you feel a kinship, camaraderie?" with Leno, Letterman asked the "Conan" host.

"Uhhhhhhh, it's a busy world, I come from a large family," O'Brien stammered. "No, I would say, up until this event, we didn't have that much in common. We're quite different fellows, he and I.

Also read: Conan O'Brien and David Letterman Mock Leno on 'Late Show' (Video)

"I don't own many automobiles that were made before 1904 … primarily of brass and leather …"

A cackling Letterman responded, "Now we're going … now we're getting someplace."

"There are very few ways — and I'm not saying this in a disparaging way at all — there are very few ways in which he and I relate … we're not interested in the same things," O'Brien continued, before he and Letterman busted out simultaneous Leno impressions.

Watch the video:

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Apparently two of the judges of the NBC smash hit “The Voice” have been grating each other’s nerves all season, And unfortunately the feud looks like it’s far from over, as now they’ve taken their feud to the internet. Judges Christina Aguilera and Adam Levine have been snipping at each other throughout the entire season, a [...]

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"Hysteria" is a fun fling of a movie about medical science at its shakiest. Literally.

This amusing period comedy chronicles the invention of the vibrator in the late Victorian era, when doctors used early versions of the electrical device to bring women to sexual satisfaction. This was done in the name of treating women thought to be suffering from “hysteria,” a vague diagnostic catch-all that covered pretty much all female complaints from melancholia to mania.

The male doctors, unable even to envision what to them was the then-preposterous notion that women might have sexual needs or could achieve actual orgasm, viewed the vibrator as a scientific device that relieved female patients of built-up, ahem, pressure, leaving them calm and appropriately docile. 

As Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), the initially priggish but idealistic young English doctor who first uses the vibrator in “Hysteria,” claims, “It’s strictly a medical treatment that stimulates the nervous system.”

Tell that to the scores of eager female patients crowding his waiting room.

The medical use of electrical vibrators by doctors to cure women’s “hysteria” in the 1800s was also the subject of “In the Next Room,” a well-reviewed, emotionally complex play by Sarah Ruhl that was done on Broadway in 2009 and at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Ca. in 2010.

Director Tanya Wexler takes a lighter approach in this — let’s just say it — feel good comedy. “Hysteria” is actually more of a romantic comedy, since a major component of its story is how Mortimer finds himself engaged to Emily Dalrymple (Felicity Jones), a proper Victorian maiden, while strongly attracted to radical Charlotte Dalrymple (Maggie Gyllenhaal), her social activist older sister. Both women are the daughters of the pompous, successful establishment physician (Jonathan Pryce) for whom Mortimer works as a junior partner in London.

When a wealthy inventor friend (Rupert Everett) develops the vibrator, Mortimer is quick to grasp its medical potential. He and his fellow physicians had been manually masturbating their female patients before, a practice that required lengthy sessions until patients found relief and which led to cramps and soreness problems from repetitive use in the physician’s fingers and hands. The “percussor,” as Mortimer dubs his vibrator, cuts the time spent with patients down to minutes and relieves the physical stress on the doctor.

“Hysteria” conveys all of this with admirable economy and humor. Just as Mortimer here performs his buzzy medical magic from behind decorous partial curtains which shield the patient from actual view, so the movie deftly suggests more than it actually specifies either visually or verbally. 

Dancy makes for an appealing leading man, all shy charm and embarrassment, while Gyllenhaal provides a lively foil, her character merrily challenging Mortimer with her progressive views at every turn.

Historical note: There was an actual J. Mortimer Granville who devised a medical vibrator in 1880, but the movie does little more than appropriate his name, invention and era. The real Granville specified that his vibrators were to be used to relieve commonplace muscle aches and vociferously objected when medical peers began applying his massagers to women’s private parts. (For everything you ever wanted to know about sexually-flavored medical treatment for women during that era, click here.)

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Will Smith slapped the crap out of a reporter in Europe for kissing,new clip. Yesterday,big time movie star Will Smith,hit up Europe to further promote his new flick “Men In Black 3,” and did a little smacking around while he was over there (video below). Apparently, a reporter got a little too friendly when he greeted Will with a kiss on the cheek. It looks like Will thought he was trying to kiss him on the mouth. I don’t know if he was for sure,but the important thing is Will thought he was,and got very angry. He proceeded to push him off,and gave him a goodbye slap on the face. Whoa! I bet that reporter will think twice before trying that crap again. Later in the clip,Will said the guy was trying to kiss him on the mouth,and he better be glad he didn’t try to sucker punch him. Then went back to acting cheery again with other reporters who knew how to keep their distance. I gotta admit, I’ve never seen Will get that angry before. He really didn’t like that.

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Nothing like seeing a couple of old pals get together again after a prolonged absence … and savage a common enemy.

Conan O'Brien made his first visit to "Late Show With David Letterman" since 1999, and naturally the conversation turned  to Leno, to whom both have lost out on the "Tonight Show" gig to Leno.

"You know Jay's watching right now. He's getting a live feed in a satellite truck right now. He is watching every second," Conan cracked, before launching into a wicked Leno impression.

"Dave looks unhappy," O'Brien mocked, in Leno's trademark nasally tone. "He's gonna pack it in soon."

Letterman went on to jokingly note how much he enjoyed the 2010 "Tonight Show" snafu, during which Conan was replaced by Leno after a brief run on the late-night staple.

"I was delighted by everything that happened — except for you losing your job," Letterman offered.

""The only consolation I took during that period was that you were happy," O'Brien shot back.

O'Brien's "Late Show" appearance airs Thursday night. Until then, watch the latest salvo in the late-night wars unfold in the preview clip.

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What to see, what to see…

This Week in Theaters we’ve got What To Expect When You’re Expecting (an all-star cast movie all about the “awesomeness” of being prego…), The Dictator (another silly Sacha Baron Cohen flick full of LOLs and costumes) and Mansome (a documentary about men who worry about their looks more than women do…oh, and Zach Galifianakis is in it too).

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MTV has canceled its romantic dramedy series "I Just Want My Pants Back" after one season.

"We're proud to have aired 'I Just Want My Pants Back,' with its impressive creative pedigree and talented group of actors," MTV said in a statement. "Many factors go in to determining renewals, however, and ultimately, we decided not to move forward with an additional season of 'Pants.'"

One likely reason for the cancelation: MTV's cup overfloweth with upcoming series, including "Inbetweeners," Craig Wright's "Underemployed" and "Gonna be Famous" with Zach Stone and Bo Burnham, plus sophomore seasons of "Awkward" and "Teen Wolf" in June.

Also read: MTV's Video Music Awards Get a Big New Location

The ratings for "Pants" started off strong, but dwindled throughout its debut season.

The show, which revolved around a group of twentysomething hipsters in Brooklyn, was produced by Liman and Dave Bartis' Hypnotic production company and Universal Cable Productions.

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"Hysteria" is a fun fling of a movie about medical science at its shakiest. Literally.

This amusing period comedy chronicles the invention of the vibrator in the late Victorian era, when doctors used early versions of the electrical device to bring women to sexual satisfaction. This was done in the name of treating women thought to be suffering from “hysteria,” a vague diagnostic catch-all that covered pretty much all female complaints from melancholia to mania.

The male doctors, unable even to envision what to them was the then-preposterous notion that women might have sexual needs or could achieve actual orgasm, viewed the vibrator as a scientific device that relieved female patients of built-up, ahem, pressure, leaving them calm and appropriately docile. 

As Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), the initially priggish but idealistic young English doctor who first uses the vibrator in “Hysteria,” claims, “It’s strictly a medical treatment that stimulates the nervous system.”

Tell that to the scores of eager female patients crowding his waiting room.

The medical use of electrical vibrators by doctors to cure women’s “hysteria” in the 1800s was also the subject of “In the Next Room,” a well-reviewed, emotionally complex play by Sarah Ruhl that was done on Broadway in 2009 and at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Ca. in 2010.

Director Tanya Wexler takes a lighter approach in this — let’s just say it — feel good comedy. “Hysteria” is actually more of a romantic comedy, since a major component of its story is how Mortimer finds himself engaged to Emily Dalrymple (Felicity Jones), a proper Victorian maiden, while strongly attracted to radical Charlotte Dalrymple (Maggie Gyllenhaal), her social activist older sister. Both women are the daughters of the pompous, successful establishment physician (Jonathan Pryce) for whom Mortimer works as a junior partner in London.

When a wealthy inventor friend (Rupert Everett) develops the vibrator, Mortimer is quick to grasp its medical potential. He and his fellow physicians had been manually masturbating their female patients before, a practice that required lengthy sessions until patients found relief and which led to cramps and soreness problems from repetitive use in the physician’s fingers and hands. The “percussor,” as Mortimer dubs his vibrator, cuts the time spent with patients down to minutes and relieves the physical stress on the doctor.

“Hysteria” conveys all of this with admirable economy and humor. Just as Mortimer here performs his buzzy medical magic from behind decorous partial curtains which shield the patient from actual view, so the movie deftly suggests more than it actually specifies either visually or verbally. 

Dancy makes for an appealing leading man, all shy charm and embarrassment, while Gyllenhaal provides a lively foil, her character merrily challenging Mortimer with her progressive views at every turn.

Historical note: There was an actual J. Mortimer Granville who devised a medical vibrator in 1880, but the movie does little more than appropriate his name, invention and era. The real Granville specified that his vibrators were to be used to relieve commonplace muscle aches and vociferously objected when medical peers began applying his massagers to women’s private parts. (For everything you ever wanted to know about sexually-flavored medical treatment for women during that era, click here.)

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From the mind, body, heart and soul of Jacques Audiard comes “Rust and Bone” ("De rouille et d'os"), a beautifully rendered, deeply felt film about how traumatic events can sometimes point us in the right direction. 

Audiard, like most modern French filmmakers, does not want to force his story into an inorganic formula with three acts, a catalytic incident, a climax and a resolution.  If those elements are there, no one has carved off the fat. And the same way fat makes meat taste so much better, "Rust and Bone" is made better because of the organic way he lets his characters breathe and allows the intricacies of their motivations to play out.

Co-written by Audiard and Thomas Bidegain, “Rust and Bone” begins with a wayward Alain (Matthias Schoenaerts) caring for his son the only way he knows how: he finds discarded food if they're hungry, he steals a camera if they want to take photos and he takes nickel-and-dime jobs where he can. 

His son's mother is out of the picture — drugs, who knows what else.  And here's this little five-year-old boy, tender and vulnerable, trusting in his father to make it all okay.  From the outset, Audiard makes it clear that this is going to be very different from his searing masterpiece, “Un Prophete.” 

Soon enough, Alain meets Stephanie, the superb Marion Cotillard as an orca trainer, whose own life is forever changed by a freak accident during one of the live shows.   

Where the beautiful Stephanie had rejected Alain's advances before she lost her legs, now that her world has been shattered she reaches out to him. And remarkably, he is there for her.

But their relationship is a complicated one.  He wants to be a casual lover and friend while she needs something deeper.  What drives the wedge of their separateness is their mutual fear.  As Stephanie learns to pull herself out of misery and live her life as normally as possible, Alain sinks deeper and deeper into trouble.  But somehow the two of them keep finding their way back to each other.

“Rust and Bone” is about how our lives are shaped by the people we love.  We cling to each other and from that the direction of our lives is decided. Audiard learned how to live his life long before he took the helm as director and decided to start telling stories, which is probably why he has much to say about the human condition.

Cotillard, with unwashed hair and no makeup, is still one of the most beautiful faces ever to grace the screen. Here, she must embody what it is like to be rejected by society as the undesirable, to lose the job she loved so much and to take a chance on a relationship with a guy who is emotionally cut off. Cotillard goes deep and delivers one of her best performances.

The audience lingered and applauded warmly and for a good long while at the end of the film, with Audiard's name getting its own round of applause. 

Not everyone will connect with “Rust and Bone,” but for those who do the film will burrow deeply in — for those we've loved and lost, for the dreams we had we could never fulfill, for the moment we discovered that sooner or later life kicks you in the teeth and you have two choices: lay down and die or stand up and fight.  

The beauty in this is that these characters learn to live with their broken bones, their missing limbs and absent mothers — their newly constructed hopes and dreams held together with rust and bone.

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New MTV Teen Mom finale season 4 trailer spoiler clip released. Recently,MTV dropped the first,new trailer (below) for their upcoming “Teen Mom” finale season 4. That’s right. It’s the final season for Maci Bookout, Farrah Abraham, Amber Portwood,and Catelynn Lowell,and the clip features some shocking moments. Maci is deeply hurt from her breakup with Kyle. Catelynn and her fiance will question their decision to put Carly up for adoption. Farrah will shock her parents by moving to another state, and Amber will continue to struggle with her legal problems. Also,someone gets proposed to. Catelynn’s about to graduate,and more. Check it out,below. The season 4 premiere, debuts on Tuesday,June 12th at 9pm central time on non other than MTV.

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New True Blood season 5 new episode 11 spoilers revealed. Recently, Trueblood-news,graced us with new spoilers for the upcoming True Blood,season 5. These spoilers are for episode 11 ,and are derived from casting calls that were recently released by the network, so they’re pretty sloppy,but they get the job done. First up we have character ELDER FAERIE,who is a female in her 40s,or older. She will only be a guest star,and there will be singing and dancing involved. They were really adamant about that too. Next, is GONDRY,who is in his mid 30s. Is described as being slimy and conniving, with slicked back hair. Gondry is a Vampire Security Guard. He has a sort of amused contempt for his assignment. BERTRAND is a swarthy Frenchman,who is authoritative and confident. He is the Minister of the European Vampire League. MURPHY ROLLINS is in his mid 50s. He’s a strong werewolf,and speaks his mind. He brings a warning about a new breed of vampires to Alcide and Jackson. TEEN-GIRL VAMPIRE is a teenage girl vampire with a ravenous, feral, just plain evil look about her. ANGRY FAERIE is an angry faerie that gets into an argument with the Belligerent Faerie and a Pissed Off Faerie in a faerie free-for-all. AUTHORITY GUARD #1, #2 are rough Authority Guards at the prison,and help keep order. BIKER VAMP is a newly formed vampire with a feral, ravaneous, evil look,and is traveling around with the Teen-Girl Vamp and the Businessman Vamp. BUSINESSMAN VAMP is a businessman vamp with a ravenous, feral, just plain evil look. FAERIE BOY and FAERIE GIRL get all amorous and excited after they pull Jason into their Faerie Club. So,it looks like Jason may explore his Faerie side as well.

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Reality TV is getting the Cannes treatment at the world’s premiere film festival. Italian director Matteo Garrone (pictured above right with actor Nando Paone) brought Reality to the fest’s competition, following up his critically acclaimed gangster pic Gomorrah several years ago. The film centers on a village fisherman who sacrifices everything for the perceived chance to become a reality-television celebrity.

After being persuaded to apply for the Italian version of Big Brother, Luciano gets a follow up interview in Rome. He is initially reluctant to pursue the role, but after an interview he thinks went well, Luciano begins to believe he’s in the running for the series. After returning to Naples, he begins to believe he’s still “being cast” as he goes about his daily life. Soon, he lives as if he’s already on the show. A chance meeting with people from Rome turns into an “incognito casting session,” and soon it gets worse as he loses sense of actual reality.

“After Gomorrah, I was waiting for a theme that would be as powerful,” Garrone said in Cannes on Friday morning. “I wanted a surprising film, but after Gomorrah, I didn’t realize I’d be hitting a brick wall.”

The film is chock full of thematic takeaways, including the religious metaphor that through good works, one can achieve paradise: In the film, Luciano begins to give up his worldly possessions, believing the people secretly watching him will be charmed by his selflessness — much to the horror of his family. Reality could also be an indictment of the meteoric rise of reality television itself over the past decade, though Garrone said the film takes a neutral stance — at least officially.

“We shot the film without trying to be critical in any way,” he said. “The main character…

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Vampire Diaries season 4 Mike Trevino talks new Tyler,Klaus spoilers & more,new clip. Hollywood Life recently caught up to Vampire Diaries,werewolf Tyler Lockwood,star Michael Trevino at the recent CW Upfronts event,and he revealed what he’d like to see go down in season 4,and more (video below). In the clip, Mike said that he wants to play Klaus a little bit more in season 4,and see how far they can go with the whole Klaus/Tyler body switch. He also commented on seeing how far the Klaus/Caroline relationship can go without Klaus coming in,and messing up everything. He also talked about how difficult it is too shoot those wicked werewolf transformation scenes. It takes very long hours to shoot them,and he has to growl into a mic for long periods of time,which is totally not flattering. But,yeah,he was really adamant about wanting to play, Klaus’ character a little while longer,so we may see him play Klaus for a few more episodes when season 4 stars back up. Check it out,below.

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Reality TV is getting the Cannes treatment at the world’s premiere film festival. Italian director Matteo Garrone (pictured above right with actor Nando Paone) brought Reality to the fest’s competition, following up his critically acclaimed gangster pic Gomorrah several years ago. The film centers on a village fisherman who sacrifices everything for the perceived chance to become a reality-television celebrity.

After being persuaded to apply for the Italian version of Big Brother, Luciano gets a follow up interview in Rome. He is initially reluctant to pursue the role, but after an interview he thinks went well, Luciano begins to believe he’s in the running for the series. After returning to Naples, he begins to believe he’s still “being cast” as he goes about his daily life. Soon, he lives as if he’s already on the show. A chance meeting with people from Rome turns into an “incognito casting session,” and soon it gets worse as he loses sense of actual reality.

“After Gomorrah, I was waiting for a theme that would be as powerful,” Garrone said in Cannes on Friday morning. “I wanted a surprising film, but after Gomorrah, I didn’t realize I’d be hitting a brick wall.”

The film is chock full of thematic takeaways, including the religious metaphor that through good works, one can achieve paradise: In the film, Luciano begins to give up his worldly possessions, believing the people secretly watching him will be charmed by his selflessness — much to the horror of his family. Reality could also be an indictment of the meteoric rise of reality television itself over the past decade, though Garrone said the film takes a neutral stance — at least officially.

“We shot the film without trying to be critical in any way,” he said. “The main character…

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Mick Jagger taught "Saturday Night Live" star Kristen Wiig everything she knows about music, meaning lots of scoop on drugs and various sexual acts. That's what Wiig tells the Rolling Stones singer in promos for Saturday's 37th season finale of "SNL."

"Mick, I am so excited you're hosting," Wiig says in the promo. "I grew up on you, you taught me so much about music. Seriously, you taught me so much about using drugs … like, so many drugs. The different types of drugs …"

Also read: Keith Richards Regrets Savaging Mick Jagger in His Memoir

"I don't think we need to go there," Jagger interrupts, before Wiig continues on and lists the many bleeped-out sexual acts she learned about thanks to Jagger.

Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire and Jeff Beck join Jagger as the musical guests for the season finale, which marks the first time Jagger has hosted the show since 1978, when he and the Stones were the host and musical guest for the fourth season premiere.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in a film adaption of John Le Carre's "A Most Wanted Man."

The Oscar winner and Tony nominee will play the leader of a covert Germany spy group looking into the case of Issa, a tortured part-Chechen, part-Russian with a claim to his family's fortune. While a series of people, including a banker and a female lawyer, try to help Issa, assorted intelligence agencies begin to dig into his true identity.

Hoffman is currently performing  on Broadway in "Death of a Salesman." He has received a 2012 Tony nomination for his portrayal of Willy Loman.

Film4 is co-financing and co-developing "A Most Wanted Man,"  which Anton Corbijn is directing. Corbijn is a prolific Dutch music video director who last directed "The American," starring George Clooney.

Hoffman's next two projects, Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" and Yaron Zilberman's "A Late Quartet," have both wrapped, and "Death of a Salesman" is slated to run through June 2.

"A Most Wanted Man" is slated to start production this fall.

Hollywood has often turned to Le Carre's oeuvre for inspiration, most recently with "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," which earned three Oscar nominations.

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Like it, share it, post it in the live stream — Facebook is now a public company.

The social network's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Friday, officially kicking off the biggest tech initial public offering in history. 

After more than a year of pent-up anticipation and fevered speculation, Facebook priced its IPO at $38 a share, setting it up to raise $16 billion. The company's valuation is expected to rise to north of $100 billion. 

Also read: Facebook IPO: 5 Warning Signs That Have Investors Worried

Facebook's public debut is the third largest IPO in U.S. history, behind the  $19.7 billion raised by Visa in 2008 and the $18.1 billion generated by  General Motors in 2010, according to Reuters.

Questions ranging from Facebook's troublesome mobile app to its pricey acquisition of the photo sharing program Instagram continue to inspire debate among analysts. Still less than a decade after Zuckerberg revolutionized the way the world interacts digitally, the social networking platform is about to become extremely well-capitalized. 

For a certain "hacker" in Menlo Park, that translates into a whole lot of hoodies. 

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The BlackBerry user is Katie Holmes…  The device she is using is a??? Name that BlackBerry! [Thanks Circe]

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Amber Portwood has been released from jail. She got sprung yesterday.

The troubled Teen Mom star was placed back behind bars last week after violating the terms of her probation by failing to appear in an Indiana court.

The 22-year-old allegedly lied about a medical condition to get out of a drug test. Her probation officer called the bluff, asking her doctor directly.

Some very sleepy-eyed Amber Portwood mug shots soon followed.

How’s the reality star feeling now that she’s back on the other side?

“OK,” Amber told E! News. “Just hustling. I’ve got a lot on my plate.”

Naturally.

According to her brother, Shawn Portwood, Amber’s “new goal is to join the military.” Yes, apparently he’s serious. “She was going to work hard to get her charge reduced,” added Shawn. “She’s been doing so well.”

The Teen Mom trailer would suggest otherwise, but here’s hoping.

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The 2012 Cannes Film Festival is underway (catch up with Movieline’s coverage from the French Riviera here), and plenty of stars have already traipsed the Croisette. See Marion Cotillard, Sean Penn, Bill Murray, Jada Pinkett Smith, Naomi Watts, Eva Longoria, Freida Pinto, Jane Fonda, Jessica Chastain, Diane Kruger, and more in Movieline’s gallery of red carpet looks and candid shots from Cannes.

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• Did Donna Summer get lung cancer from 9/11? (TMZ)
• A magically delicious Channing Tatum wants to strip for you. (Entertainment Weekly)
• Jenny McCarthy wants to get naked for Hugh Hefner… again. (The Superficial)
• Obsessed fan of Mila Kunis charged with two felonies. (TMZ)
• If it weren’t for Billy Bob Thornton and his insecurities, Brangelina might never have existed. (Radar Online)
• John Mayer is talking again. (US Weekly)
• In a shocking elimination, the “American Idol” final two are revealed. (Entertainment

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Paul Schrader, writer of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has signed to write a drama about Mathilde Kschessinska, a famed Russian ballerina and mistress to the last Russian tsar, in a ground-breaking project backed by the Kremlin.

Producers David American producers David Weisman and Anatoly Davydov announced the project at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.

The film will be financed by the V. Vinokur Fund for the Support of Russian Culture & Arts under the auspices of the Kremlin, and is an unusual collaboration between a renowned American screenwriter and a Russian-backed production.

The film will be shot in English with a mixed Russian and American cast.

Kschessinska played mistress to at least four aristocratic men who controlled the crumbling Romanov dynasty, including Russia’s last Tsar, Nicholas II. Rising from poverty, through her extraordinary gift for ballet, Kschessinska lived a life of luxury on the cusp of the Russian revolution.

“Kschessinska’s life is a powerful metaphor for Russian culture and evokes the best of Russian arts,” said Schrader.  “She was a first native prima ballerina in the country that saw the highest achievement in that art form. She was not only a witness to the critical period of Russian history, she was a player in that history, only to be thrown aside.”

Said Weisman: “Kschessinska was worshipped and reviled,” said Weisman. “Nicknames such as ‘Black-eyed She-Devil of the Imperial Ballet’ and ‘Mathilde the Magnificent’ echo the seething jealousy and boundless admiration Kschessinska provoked during her time.  Having narrowly escaped the Bolshevik bloodbath, for fifty years she taught ballet in Paris where she died only a few months before her hundredth birthday, in 1971.”

Schrader is the legendary writer of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull.” His directing credits include “American Gigolo” and “Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters.”

The film will be made in collaboration with Russian producer Vladimir Vinokur and his partner the Russian ballet impresario Vladislav Moskalev.

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There is always the one movie in Cannes that you wish you could unsee. Last year it was "Michael," the day-to-day meditation of a pedophile with a boy in his basement.  This year, it has to be "Paradies: Liebe," Ulrich Seidl's film about middle-aged white women who go to Kenya to exploit poverty stricken males by paying them for sex.  While the topic is vital and worth exposing, it's mighty hard to sit through a solid two hours of this torture.

Most women of a certain age who have "let themselves go" have long since given up on passionate sex. To be adored and hungered for isn't on the menu. In its place, either sexless companionship or chicken-fried steak and the jackrabbit vibrator. But the truth of it, which is what "Paradies" sets out to illustrate, is that it isn't really sex so much as love that many of these women are after.  But if is to be sex for money, it might as well be as customer-friendly as possible.

We're accustomed to seeing men exploit vulnerable women in poor countries for sex, but we haven't often seen women do it. It's hard to imagine a woman, much less one who looks like your grandmother, needing sex so much she becomes the predator. But just because a woman's sexuality is hidden from view after she reaches middle age doesn't mean it goes away.

The story follows Teresa (Margarete Tiesel), a woman who works with the disabled. She's a single mother to an indifferent teen, and for the most part has nothing in her life that makes her even remotely happy. Life has become a chore. Then her friend tells her how African boy toys in Keyna are ripe for the picking, just waiting for a white "sugar mama." It's a mutually beneficial relationship if everyone plays by the rules — he needs her money, she needs his attention.

Teresa decides to go to a Kenyan resort, and for much of the early part of her trip we watch her parade around in her bra and underwear. The director doesn't want us to see her as a desirable woman. He appears to seek both our disapproval and perhaps our repulsion, and he succeeds at both. Watching Teresa lumber around the room, we can't take our eyes off of her flab, which hangs from her torso and rests on her upper thigh. We silently wonder: What man is going to want to devour that? We hate ourselves for thinking that — but we're all thinking that.

What follows is a display of the very desperation that motivates young African males to seduce women like Teresa, playing an odd courting ritual. First comes the hand-holding, then the trip to the young man's improverished village, then the purchase of a condom, then awkward sex in a tiny hovel. At first, Teresa resists the advances of her fake beau, but soon she meets a guy who knows exactly how to seduce her. She falls for it. When that goes sour, she evolves, finally, into a woman who is willing to get her money's worth.

In one horrifying scene, four German middle-aged women are groping a stripper, trying to get him hard. The one who can do it wins – but, of course, the bitter truth is that none of those women will do it for him. Still, they are undeterred. By now, they've mostly shut out those voices of protest — they've stopped caring whether the men desire them or not. This is a financial deal, not an emotional one.

Seidl never lets you forget that in parts of Africa, and other places in the world, there is almost nothing you can't buy. In one of the more haunting scenes, African men stand immobile beyond the boundaries of the resort and the women sit watching them, knowing that they can have their pick. All they have to do is be willing to accept how disgusting it is. Once they get past that, they're capable of grabbing a tiny piece of sexual pleasure even if they have to pay through the nose for it.

Teresa's own sexuality is buried beneath layers of self-loathing and a misleading desire for romance, passion and love. She arrogantly and stupidly thinks she can find that on the streets of Kenya, that it might be possible that they could ever be equals. This blindness makes us hate Teresa and all of her kind — can't they see what they are doing?

It is a grotesque, draining experience, watching "Paradies" play out. These women might think they've found paradise — who knows how long this has been going on, and whether it continues to this day? — but what they've really found is hell on earth.

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“Be yourself and you can be anything.” – Katy Perry

The upcoming documentary concert film Katy Perry: Part of Me now has an official poster, teasing insight into the singer’s private life as well as her singing career.

The film will focus on Perry’s bombastic live performances, but there’s more to it, as well. Who is the lovely young woman behind the getups and catchy #1 hits?

The documentary tells the story of Perry’s life, her rise to stardom, and her current status as one of the world’s most famous celebrities, beginning July 5.

It will also touch on some of her “dark times,” such as her divorce from Russell Brand, which understandably crushed Katy despite an amicable parting of ways.

For a more extensive preview of the forthcoming behind-the-scene look at the “Firework” herself, check out the Katy Perry: Part of Me in 3D trailer below:

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When a person who has kept her sexuality private or who otherwise has lived his public life as a straight person comes out as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, it’s a big deal. It’s an important time in that person’s life, as well as his family’s and friends’ lives. Like it or not, it can be [...]

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Jane Lynch has a message for Republicans and its all about dollars and cents. 

On "The Rachel Maddow Show" Wednesday night, the  "Glee" star said that the GOP should embrace gay marriage, as President Barack Obama did last week, not just because she believes it's the right thing to do, but because it offers an economic opportunity. 

"Now, I, Jane Lynch am not normally one to give career advice to Republicans, but guys and gals, there’s money to be made on promoting gay rights within the Republican party," Lynch said during Maddow's “Best New Thing in the World” segment.

Also read: Obama's Gay Marriage Support a Hit in Hollywood, But Will It Help Fundraising?

How, you might ask? Lynch argued that Republican political strategists can hike their fees to GOP candidates by offering coaching tips on outreach to the gay community. 

"Someone is going to have to teach Republicans to talk about gay rights, without seeming like they’ve caved to the Democrats," Lynch said. "Some strategists are going to have to make it their specialty to teach Republicans how to be pro-gay while still sounding angry."

The Republican party and the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney have publicly opposed legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples, but Lynch said that they are on the wrong side of history.

As evidence, the actress cited a memo from one of the party's own — former President George W. Bush's pollster Jan van Lohuizen. 

In a message to fellow Republicans obtained by Politico, Lohuizen said the party must change its tune on the issue, because support for gay marriage is intensifying. 

"As more people have become aware of friends and family members who are gay, attitudes have begun to shift at an accelerated pace," van Lohuizen wrote. "This is not about a generational shift in attitudes, this is about people changing their thinking as they recognize their friends and family members who are gay or lesbian.” 

Lynch did an ace job filling Maddow's wonky and acerbic shoes, but she told the MSNBC host that even that she's sticking with her day job. 

"I would love to play [a cable news host]," Lynch said. "I don't know that I would want to do it day in and day out. I know how much you work and how you have to have your finger on the pulse."

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If you didn’t like Roman Polanski before, you’re not going to like him any better after seeing him tell his life story in “Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir.”

Producer Andrew Braunsberg, one of the director’s closest friends, sits with him to talk through an extraordinary life: a childhood torn to shreds by the Holocaust, a film career in Poland, his marriage to Sharon Tate and her murder by the Manson clan, his rape of Samantha Geimer and the media circus aftermath and his life in exile, capped by arrest in Switzerland in 2009 after an extradition request by the Los Angeles district attorney.

It’s enough twists and turns to make anyone gasp. Yet Polanski recounts these events with calm and humor and a sense of intelligent perspective.

All that doesn’t help. It still feels self-serving.

On the heels of the far more probing – and useful — documentary by Marina Zenovich last year, “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” this “Film Memoir” resonates more like a home movie than a doc.

In the hands of a more disinterested interviewer, the film might have uncovered the real person behind the competing mythologies.

Who is Roman Polanski? This is his version of himself. Notably missing is the Polanski whose life is an emblem of the cultural upheaval of the '60s and '70s – both the Helter Skelter murders that helped end the era of peace and love, and the drug-and-sex fuelled party that followed, of which he was a part.

Polanski is moved to tears by things that may be new to us – his father’s return to the family bosom during Nazi deportations; his mother’s dispatch to Auschwitz where she died.

But he is composed when talking about Sharon Tate’s murder, and equanimous when talking about the Geimer rape and his treatment by the legal system (the Zenovich documentary showed that the judge reneged on an agreement for Polanski to get probation with time served).

If Polanski does not visibly wallow in self-pity – and he may have cause to do so – he also does not spend time on self-reflection. He is far too proud, even if one feels his deep intelligence in all his comments. Only late in the film does he allow that “of course it was wrong” what he did, and calls Geimer a “double victim,” for enduring the media gauntlet.

The tendentious Braunsberg – who was sitting beside Polanski when the director got the call about Sharon Tate saying, “They’re all dead” — doesn't allow an uncomfortable moment. Neither does director Laurent Bouzereau.

Like everything else in Polanski’s life, reactions to this new documentary will be bifurcated: the French will love him all the more as a victimized genius. Americans will think he’s concocted a tendentious piece of drivel to excuse his past. 

Neither are right. And both are.

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The Fix is rapidly becoming one of my favorite health-oriented websites. Whether it’s a celebrity interview or an article on some new scientific development, the site, which touts itself as “the world’s leading website about addiction and recovery,” always has something interesting to sink your eyes in. Of course, I can’t share every single thing [...]

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“Bladerunner” scribe Hampton Fancher is in talks to reunite with the film’s director, Ridley Scott, for a sequel to the 1982 cult classic.

Alcon Entertainment, which is producing the film with Scott Free Productions, Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, would not say much about the plot, only that “the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded.”

Scott was already planning to direct a follow-up to the science-fiction thriller, and now Fancher will try to pitch the best idea. Along with David Peoples, he co-wrote the original film, which was based on Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

According to a statement released on Thursday, Fancher and Scott had planned the initial film as a trilogy, much like the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises.

Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, co-founders and co-CEOs of Alcon, had this to say about the project: “It is a perfect opportunity to reunite Ridley with Hampton on this new project, one in fact inspired by their own personal collaboration, a classic of cinema if there ever was one.”

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West went to the Lakers/Nuggets Quarterfinal last night at the Staples Center. She's wearing some kind of leather sheath.

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Not her best photo ever.

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I'm confused: is this actually cute? Because I think it might be.

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American Idol 2012 Jennifer Lopez reportedly quitting the show. According to a new report from Hollywood Life, mega star Jennifer Lopez is going to be quitting her plush, judge,gig on American Idol after this season 11. Their sources claim,she’s just too damn busy. She also told Ellen DeGeneres the same thing on her show. She said that the show ties her down too much,and since her kids are starting up school next year,she’s going to need more time for that,and all the other stuff she’s doing,including an upcoming music tour with Enrique Iglesias,and her cougar romance with 24 year old dancer Casper Smart. There’s also rumors that she’s demanding a salary raise to stay on the show,and they just might give it to her,because she’s,somehow, gotten them believe they need her,which couldn’t be further from the truth. Their source said, “Fox does not want to let her go. They love her.” Hell,I’d let her go in a blink of an eye. There’s plenty of other people they can get. Stay tuned.

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