Benicio Del Toro is turning infamous drug lord for Paradise Lost, playing the notorious Pablo Escobar. Now the first image of him in the movie has arrived, via Pathe International.
The official synopsis says, ‘Young surfer Nick (Josh Hutcherson) thinks all his dreams have come true when he goes to visit his brother in Columbia. Against an idyllic backdrop of blue lagoons and white beaches he falls madly in love with a beautiful Colombian girl called Maria. It all seems perfect until he meets her uncle, one Pablo Escobar.;
The film is based on a true story and as you might expect, thing soon get very dangerous.
Italian actor Andrea Di Stefano (Life of Pi) wrote the screenplay and makes his directorial debut with the movie. It should be in cinemas next year.
I’ve been wondering for a couple of years why nobody has been trying to put together a remake of The Grapes Of Wrath, as in these tough economic times, John Steinbeck’s Great Depression tales seem very apt for the modern day.
A remake of The Crow has been in development for several years, but it’s faced a couple of problems. The first (and perhaps most significant) is a revolving door of actors and director coming and going from the film. The other is rumblings from fans that they don’t want a do-over, feeling it couldn’t beat the original comics of the 1994 film.
Young Aussie actor Brenton Thwaites should see his star rise next year when he plays the Prince in Maleficent, and now he’s hoping to capitalise of that by signing up to star opposite Jeff Bridges in The Giver, which Philip Noyce is directing, based on Lois Lowry’s dystopian young adult novel.
The Simpsons has covered LGBT topics numerous times in its long history. Now a German academic Erwin In het Panhuis has been analysing the series and its record on gay rights, looking at 490 Simpsons scenes and finding over 70 gay characters and 500 gay-themes scenes.
In the wake of last week’s Supreme Court DOMA and Prop 8 rulings, several gay celebs came forward to say they are now planning to marry, and now Neil Patrick Harris is one of them.
For nearly 30 years, Kevin Clash was the puppeteer and voice behind Sesame Street’s Elmo, but things came crashing down around him last November, when several men came forward to claim Clash had underage sex with them. A few days after the news broke, 