Top Hollywood actress Charlize Theron is recovering at home from an unknown stomach virus following a spell in hospital.
News24 reports her partner, Stuart Townshend, got worried that something was seriously wrong with the Oscar-winning star after she complained of serious stomach pains and took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. Townshend said:
I was scared to death. I had no idea what was happening to her, but this is a woman who never complains, so I knew it had to be serious.
Doctors believed Theron contracted the virus while on a trip overseas. According to online sources, Theron was born in South Africa and began a modelling career at the age of 16. She later moved to the U.S., where she planned to become a dancer. After moving to California, she got into the film industry and rose to prominence in the late 1990s with films like Mighty Joe Young. Theron won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2004 for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster.From:www.digitaljournal.com/
Hollywood actor and director Antonio Banderas said Saturday the financial crisis had dealt a heavy blow to independent film-makers."The crisis has taken us by surprise and it is stabbing us in the back," said the Spaniard, who starred in hit films including Desperado and Evita.
"It is very difficult to get a penny from a bank now, we are in a difficult situation," he added, speaking at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, where he was presenting the first film he has directed, "El Camino de los Ingleses" ("Summer Rain").
Banderas, 49, who started his career under Spanish director Pedro Almodovar before conquering Hollywood, has returned to his roots by founding a production company in his hometown of Malaga, Spain.
He said he was also working on a film with US director Woody Allen and was involved in efforts to raise funding for a script he had written.
"I wrote a script about the last king of the Arabs in the ninth century", he said, adding the film was a representation of the modern relationship between Arab countries and the rest of the world.
Banderas is also set to return to theatre in the coming months, with a new production of "Zorba the Greek."
"I want to go back to theatre because it is my main source, I'm more a theatre actor than a film actor," he said.
He said in Hollywood "they put a label on you: you are this or that, you are a "Latin Lover", they all have drawers in which they put you."
Banderas received the President's Prize at the film festival, held in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary, for his contribution to cinema.
Whenever a child of a Hollywood figure enters the world of entertainment, charges of nepotism and hand-holding always rear their ugly heads. Well, though the definitely beautiful head of Angelina Jolie owes its genes to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, the three Golden Globes on her mantle are due to her talent alone. For three years in a row, Angelina took home a Globe. At the 55th Globes it was for her supporting role in George Wallace and at the 56th it was for her starring role in Gia. The year 2000 was her year too. Her third Globe was for her performance in Girl, Interrupted, a role that also landed the actress her first Oscar.
Angelina started studying acting at the famous Lee Strasberg Theater Institute when she was only 11. She moved into the world of professional modelling, acted in music videos, and appeared in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight.
While a part of the Met Theater in Los Angeles, Angelina worked alongside Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Playing a hybrid creature, Jolie landed her commercial picture debut in 1993’s Cyborg II: Glass Shadows. She received some critical attention for her role in Hackers (1993), and also recieved the attention of the film’s star, Jonny Lee Miller. Romance blossomed and the two married in March 1996, only to divorce in February 1999.
Other film credits included Without Evidence, Mojave Moon, Love Is All There Is, her Globe-winning roles in George Wallace and Gia, and 1999’s Pushing Tin, which co-starred John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and fellow Globe winner Cate Blanchett. Also in 1999 she starred opposite Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector and with Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted.
Jolie married Billy Bob Thornton on May 5th, 2000. That same year she starred in Gone in 60 Seconds. In 2001, she worked opposite Antonio Banderas in Original Sin and brought life to a video game character in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
In 2002, Jolie appeared opposite Ed Burns in the critically-slammed Life or Something Like It. She filed for divorce from Thornton on July 18, 2002.
After reprising her action role in 2003’s Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Angelina went on to appear in Beyond Borders.
Angelina was on the screens several times in 2004. She lent her voice to the sexy Lola in Shark Tale, worked with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and played opposite Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone’s Alexander.
In 2005, Angelina was in the tabloids far more than she was in the theatres. Her Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star, Brad Pitt was ending his marriage to Jennifer Aniston and Pitt and Jolie denied that they were involved. Paparazzi cameras followed them around the planet. They shot Pitt hanging out with Jolie and her adopted son, Maddox, and they shot the couple going to Ethiopia to pick up her newly-adopted daughter, Zahara. By the end of 2005, Pitt had filed adoption papers to adopt Angelina’s children, while Jolie sought to have their legal names changed to Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt. In January of 2006, Pitt’s publicist announced that Angelina was expecting Brad’s child. They welcomed their daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, on May 27th, 2006.
2006 also saw Angelina work with Matt Damon and Robert De Niro in the De Niro-directed The Good Shepherd. In 2007, she played Mariane Pearl in the true life story of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, A Mighty Heart. She also lent her voice to the computer animated Beowulf.From:www.digitalhit.com
A custody hearing for singer Michael Jackson's children scheduled for Monday has been pushed back for a second time.
The hearing, which was originally scheduled for July 6, has been rescheduled for July 20 at the request of Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and Jackson's former wife Debbie Rowe.
Rowe is the biological mother of two of Jackson's children -- 12-year-old Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., also known as Prince Michael, and 11-year-old Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson. Jackson's third child, Prince Michael "Blanket" Jackson II, was carried by a surrogate mother, whose name has not yet been released.
Katherine Jackson was given temporary guardianship of the children by a judge several days after her son's death.
According to Michael Jackson's will filed in 2002, he wanted his children to be cared for by his mother. If Katherine Jackson, 79, is not living, Jackson said in the will, "I nominate Diana Ross as guardian."
Ross, star of the Motown singing group the Supremes, met Jackson when he was a 9-year-old sensation. The two performed together over the years and Jackson told an interviewer in 1982 he considered Ross to be one of his true personal friends.
Jackson specifically left Rowe out of his will.Rowe reportedly signed away her parental rights to the children after she and Jackson divorced in 1999, but an appeals court re-established her parental status in 2006.Rowe has not publicly indicated whether she will challenge Jackson for custody.From:edition.cnn.com
Back at the turn of the millennium, they were just a bunch of kids — some with a bit of professional acting experience, most completely raw — that were fortunate and talented enough to be cast in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The film conjured up almost $1 billion at the worldwide box office, and as "Potter" movie after "Potter" movie went into production over the years, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and the rest of the core cast essentially grew up together.
Almost a decade after their first witch-and-wizard adventure, the child actors have morphed into young adults — and the story lines have matured along with them. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (in theaters July 15), the sixth film in the franchise, presents all manner of love triangles, broken hearts and blossoming relationships. The difficult trick for the cast, though, was jumping lips-first into these romantic scenes with co-stars who had become like family.
"The snogging snuff is always a bit challenging, because they've grown up together, so when you get Bonnie [Wright, who plays Ginny Weasley] and Dan having that first snog together, it's a bit like brother and sister," director David Yates told MTV News at the movie's New York premiere on Thursday. "You've got to just encourage them to think about their characters."
"I've known her since she was 9 and I was 11," the 19-year-old Radcliffe said, adding that Wright looked gorgeous making her way down the red carpet. "So, that was kind of weird at first. But we got used to it. We got over it pretty quickly."
Wright herself saw both the good and the ugly in making out with her childhood friend. "It helps, because you've known each other and it's not just a stranger," she said. "But then it's really weird when you're having to look at someone in a different way in a scene when they're that close."
The actors won't escape the task of playing kissy-face on set just yet. The final two films — the two parts of "Deathly Hallows" — will keep the romantic elements front and center.
"I did the kiss with Emma a couple weeks ago, and it was quite strange," said Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley. "I've known Emma since she was 9 years old, and it felt a little bit wrong being that way with her. But it was over quite quickly."
While Watson also called the kiss scene "really awkward," she did compliment her partner. "He's a gentleman, and he was a great kisser," she told us.
For Yates, who's worked on the series for years, watching the actors grow up together has been one of the most captivating aspects of the entire experience. "You're seeing them develop and evolve," the director said. "In their own lives, outside the film set, they're obviously having their own experience of love and love life. I encourage them to bring that into Hogwarts and share it, to help their acting have a basis in reality."From:www.mtv.com
Kate Beckinsale accepted £20,000 libel damages over a newspaper claim that she was going to miss out on her dream role as "sexy heroine Barbarella".
The 35-year-old Pearl Harbor star wasn't at London's High Court for the settlement of her action against Express Newspapers.
The actress's solicitor, Graham Atkins, said the story in the Daily Express last month was false and had caused considerable embarrassment and harm, and added that Kate was never in discussions about the film role and there was never a possibility she would be part of the project.
It followed that she hadn't been passed over in favour of Hollywood actress Rose McGowan, as the story claimed.
The newspaper's counsel, Ian Helme, offered its sincere apology and said it was happy to pay damages and the star's legal fees.
Mr Atkins said the article alleged that Kate - whose latest film Everybody's Fine is released in November - was facing "heartbreak" over the role.
The article, also published on the newspaper's website, stated that the Barbarella remake was "expected to be a big commercial hit so it will be a real blow to Kate".
Mr Atkins added: "The film industry, particularly at the highest level in Hollywood, values actresses on the basis of them being successful and in-demand - one may say, being 'hot property'.
"This article wrongly gave the impression that the claimant's career is in decline which would undoubtedly have a knock-on effect on those who would be casting film roles, as well as the industry as a whole."
Mr Helme said the newspaper, which acknowledged that the false allegations should never have been published, hoped that the record had been set straight and Kate's reputation restored.
Though it sounds difficult to obtain information from two Secret Service Agents, the actors who play them are more than happy to divulge bits and pieces about Sy Fy's latest show Warehouse 13. Playing the lead roles, Joannne Kelly and Eddie McClintock recently spoke to The Deadbolt about the small screen mystery they found themselves involved in.
Joanne Kelly portrays agent Myka Bering, someone who lives by the rules, while her partner, McClintock's Peter Lattimer, is someone who lives to break them. Warehouse 13 centers on their paranormal investigations, as well as their amusing banter.
Talking about her character, Kelly pointed out how difficult the job was for Myka. She isn't exactly enthusiastic about being assigned to the government facility, but she tries to make it work.
"I think when anyone is thrust into a situation where they're not given the facts or the whole truth behind it, there is a bit of apprehension or reticence," Joanne Kelly revealed. "But I think that in life when we are given a situation that is strange, and at this point almost inconceivable - I mean, it's pretty wild. It's pretty out there. This is somebody who thinks in black and white and she's proven wrong by the warehouse, by the very existence of it."From:www.buddytv.com
