Two Dreamgirls — Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson and Grammy winner Beyonce Knowles — will compete for a golden popcorn trophy at this year's MTV Movie Awards.
Both received nominations for best performance for their work in the 2006 film, MTV announced this week.
Also nominated for best performance: Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness, Keira Knightley for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Gerard Butler for 300. The blood-soaked 300 leads with five nominations, followed by Dead Man's Chest with four. Both films will compete for best movie along with Blades of Glory, Little Miss Sunshine and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Borat, is up for three awards, including best comedic performance, best fight with Ken Davitian and best kiss with Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Other nominees for best kiss include Cameron Diaz and Jude Law for The Holiday and Mark Wahlberg and Elizabeth Banks for Invincible. Jack Nicholson received a nomination for best villain in The Departed. Justin Timberlake is among the breakthrough performance nominees for his role in Alpha Dog. The singer competes with Emily Blunt, Abigail Breslin, Lena Headey, Columbus Short and Jaden Christopher Syre Smith.
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Sarah Silverman will host the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, slated to air live June 3 from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
Nicole Kidman is to remake Marilyn Monroe's 1953 classic How to Marry a Millionaire, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The actress will produce the project, which will be written by Sacha Gervasi, who wrote Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.
The original movie, which vaulted Monroe to stardom, starred three girls in New York who set out to catch millionaires to marry but end up falling in love with men of lesser means.
Plot details for the updated Millionaire are being kept under wraps, but it is described as a complete overhaul of the original story.
Sigourney Weaver is to star with Tina Fey and Amy Pohler in the comedy Baby Mama for Universal Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The film centers on a single career woman whose desire to have a child and keep her career leads her to hire a surrogate. Weaver will play Chaffee Bicknell, owner and operator of the surrogate agency that Fey's character uses.
Hollywood star and UN humanitarian ambassador Angelina Jolie was on location Wednesday in the Czech city of Prague to film Wanted, her next action film.
The film's publicist Kathryn Donovan however declined to say whether Jolie's celebrity partner Brad Pitt, 43, also arrived in Prague on Tuesday night as "he is not in the movie."
But sources said that Pitt might have joined Jolie, 31, when she checked in at the villa in a posh Prague neighborhood where she is staying.
Donovan could not confirm whether the glamorous actress, known for adopting children from third-world countries, had brought the couple's four children along.
Jolie's latest film is based on a comic book by Mark Millar and also stars James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman.
Shooting that began on Monday and was planned to last until July, was being directed by Hollywood debutant Timur Bekmambetov, who earned worldwide fame with his Night Watch and Day Watch science fiction films.
Unprecedented security measures have been introduced at the Prague Letnany studios, sources said. The premises are now fenced off and the crew members are allowed entry upon presenting passes.
Hogzilla, a near-mythical monster hog that roamed south Georgia, is about to get a little bigger.
An independent filmmaker is producing a horror movie about the super swine called The Legend of Hogzilla, and has even enlisted the beast's killer on the set as an adviser.
"He's our hog expert,'' producer Rick Trimm said of guide Chris Griffin, who shot the huge porker in 2004 at a hunting preserve.
Photographs of the hog hanging from a backhoe were sent around the world, and the town of Alapaha 290km south of Atlanta quickly adopted Hogzilla as its own, even launching a parade in the pig's honor.
A National Geographic team confirmed the pig's existence in 2005 after exhuming the behemoth's remains. While the experts said the hog didn't exactly live up to the hype — local hunters said the pig was 3.6m long and weighed 454kg — they still discovered a mighty big hog. They estimated it weighed around 363 kilograms and was probably about 2.4m long.
Lithium Productions says the production will need 200 locals for extras and is hosting tryouts next month.
The Lee (李) family migrated to Taiwan in trickles many decades ago. Born in Myanmar, they are ethnically Chinese and their first language is Yunnanese, from China’s Yunnan Province. Today, they run a cozy little restaurant in Taipei’s student stomping ground, near National Taiwan University (NTU), serving up a daily pre-selected menu that pays homage to their blended Yunnan-Burmese heritage, where lemongrass and curry leaves sit beside century egg and pickled woodear mushrooms. Wu Yun (巫雲) is more akin to a family home that has set up tables and chairs and welcomed strangers to cozy up and share a meal
The second floor of an unassuming office building in central Bangkok is a strange place to encounter the world’s largest rodent. Yet here, inside a small enclosure with a shallow pool, three capybaras are at the disposal of dozens of paying customers, all clamoring for a selfie. As people eagerly thrust leafy snacks toward the nonchalant-looking animals, few seem to consider the underlying peculiarity: how did this South American rodent end up over 10,000 miles from home, in a bustling Asian metropolis? Capybara cafes have been cropping up across the continent in recent years, driven by the animal’s growing internet fame.
President William Lai (賴清德) has proposed a NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) special eight-year budget that intends to bolster Taiwan’s national defense, with a “T-Dome” plan to create “an unassailable Taiwan, safeguarded by innovation and technology” as its centerpiece. This is an interesting test for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), and how they handle it will likely provide some answers as to where the party currently stands. Naturally, the Lai administration and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are for it, as are the Americans. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not. The interests and agendas of those three are clear, but
How the politics surrounding President William Lai’s (賴清德) proposed NT$1.25 trillion (US$40 billion) supplementary special defense budget plays out is going to be very revealing. It will also be nerve-wracking, with political, geopolitical and even existential stakes in play that could change the course of history. Lai broke the news of the eight-year, multilevel national security plan in the Washington Post, describing the centerpiece of it this way: “I am also accelerating the development of ‘T-Dome,’ a multilayered, integrated defense system designed to protect Taiwan from [People’s Republic of China (PRC)] missiles, rockets, drones and combat aircraft.” For more details and
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