Despite the success of Precious, it was surprisingly tough for Lee Daniels to get a follow-up off the ground. However after several false starts he’s filmed The Paperboy, which features a pretty good cast including Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman and John Cusack.
Now TheFilmStage has debuted the first US poster for the movie, which takes things retro for the upcoming movie. The film is about a directionless young man (Efron) who helps his reporter brother (McConaughey) investigate the possible wrongful conviction of a man on death row, and in the process, falls for the woman whom the convict has been romancing through prison correspondence.
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Critically acclaimed Hollywood actor Robin Williams has said he is the proud owner of a gay dog.
Every year the US Library of Congress picks 25 films to join its National Film Registry, which it believes are culturally and artistically important enough to be specially archived for posterity, with the idea being that even if the rest of the world blew up, at least these movies would survive (or something like that anyway).
Gay Twilight fans might have got a little excited over the last couple of days, as a cover of US magazine People, dated Jan. 7th, has been doing the viral internet rounds. It appears to be for a special issue in which Lautner gives an interview in which, ‘Tired of rumors, the 19-year-old Twilight star opens up about his decision to finaly come out. ‘I’m more liberated, and happier than I’ve ever been.”
The Christmas US box office is slightly unusual, as while it was a holiday four-day weekend, rather than releasing movie on a Friday, many of the studios decided to either release their movie early or wait until Christmas itself, largely because they now Christmas Eve always tends to be an unsually weak day (whereas Saturday is normally the best day of the week). The result is that while some of these new films movies got off to decent starts, they couldn’t beat out previously released flicks.
