Friday, August 12, 2011

Green Day

Green Day is an American punk rock band,the band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre cool.Green Day formed in 1987,in the band success because albums American idiot.Green Day often compared with punk band Rolling Stone.Green Day albums is 39/Smooth (1990),Kerplunk (1992,Dookie (1994),Insomniac (1995),Nimrod (1997),Warning (2000), American Idiot (2004),21st Century Breakdown (2009) in this post you can see picture of Green Day.let's see and enjoy Green Day Pictures ...

Green Day Wallpaper
Green Day Tattoo
Green Day Magazine
Green Day a cost
Green Day Punk Band
Green Day Poster
Green Day Black and White Photo


green day - american idiot

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Emma Watson & Johnny Simmons new lovers

Emma Watson and Johnny Simmons is a pair of new lovers .. Harry Potter actress looks very happy with new love ... The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the latest film Emma Watson who will be released on June 29, 2012.On Tuesday, Emma Watson was spotted out with Johnny Simmons and the camera caught kissing .Watson plans on studying at Oxford this fall, so we'll see if the relationship can survive a trek across the ocean.in this post you can see picture of new couple Emma Watson and Johnny Simmons, so what you think they match couple or not . let's see and enjoy Emma Watson and Johnny Simmons Pictures ...
Emma Watson & Johnny Simmons New Lovers Emma Watson & Johnny Simmons match couple Emma Watson & Johnny Simmons Dating Emma Watson & Johnny Simmons Kissing Emma Watson Looks so Beautiful Emma Watson & Johnny Simmons Hairstyle


Emma Watson & Johnny Simmons Are Dating And In Love

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Kate Hudson

Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress.Hudson was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, an actor, comedian, and musician. Her parents divorced eighteen months after her birth; she and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised in Colorado by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell.Hudson has stated that her biological father "doesn't know me from a hole in the wall", and that she considers Russell to be her father. Her biological father has indicated that he has made several efforts to connect with Kate and Oliver, but neither has reciprocated. Hudson has described her mother as "the woman that I've learned the most from, and who I look up to, who has conducted her life in a way that I can look up to". She has four half-siblings: Emily and Zachary Hudson, from her biological father's subsequent marriage to actress Cindy Williams; Lalania Hudson, from his relationship with another woman; and Wyatt, from her mother's relationship with Kurt Russell.Hudson is of Italian (from her paternal grandmother), English, and Hungarian Jewish descent. She was raised in her maternal grandmother's Jewish religion; She graduated from Crossroads, a college preparatory school in Santa Monica, in 1997. She was accepted to New York University, but chose to pursue an acting career instead of an undergraduate degree.
Hudson's breakthrough was as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. She had previously appeared in the lesser-known films Gossip, a teenage drama, and 200 Cigarettes, a New Year's-set comedy with a large cast of actors. Regarding her early career and success, Hudson has noted that she is a "hard worker", and did not want to be associated with her well-known parents, wishing to avoid the perception that she "rode on somebody's coattails".In 2002, she starred in the remake of the historical romance The Four Feathers, a film which was not well-received by critics or audiences. Her next film, the romantic comedy How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, was a box office success, grossing over $100 million after its February 2003 release. Hudson subsequently appeared in several romantic comedies, including Alex and Emma and Raising Helen; the films met with varying degrees of success.Hudson headlined a thriller called The Skeleton Key in 2005. The film, which had a production budget of $43 million, enjoyed box office success, grossing over $91.9 million worldwide ($47.9 million in North America). Her later film, a comedy titled You, Me and Dupree and co-starring Owen Wilson and Matt Dillon, grossed $21.5 million on its opening weekend of July 14, 2006.In 2007, Hudson directed the short film Cutlass, one of Glamour magazine's "Reel Moments" based on readers' personal essays. Cutlass co-stars Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Virginia Madsen, Chevy Chase and Kristen Stewart.In 2008, she appeared in Fool's Gold, a romantic comedy released on February 8, and her second film to co-star Matthew McConaughey. She had been certified in scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef for the movie's underwater scenes. Also the same year, she appeared in another romantic comedy, My Best Friend's Girl, which was released in September.Hudson next appeared in the musical film Nine, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench. The film, directed by Rob Marshall, was released in December 2009. Hudson was critically acclaimed for her unknown dancing skills, showcased in a stylish 60's inspired original piece called "Cinema Italiano", which was written specifically for the film and for Hudson's character.She starred in the film adaptation of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. The film premiered on January 24, 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hudson married Chris Robinson, the frontman for The Black Crowes, on December 31, 2000 in Aspen, Colorado. The couple lived in a house that was once owned by director James Whale and traveled together during Hudson's film shoots or Robinson's music tours. Hudson gave birth to son Ryder Russell Robinson in January 2004. On August 14, 2006, Hudson's publicist announced that Hudson and Robinson had separated. On November 18, 2006, Robinson filed divorce papers, citing "irreconcilable differences". The divorce was finalized on October 22, 2007. In May 2009, Hudson began dating New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. She was seen many times during the 2009 World Series in the crowd. The two had split by December 14, 2009.In spring 2010, Hudson began dating Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy. In January 2011, it was announced Hudson and Bellamy were expecting a child.In February 2011, Hudson bought a house in London, England. A Daily Mail source reported that she plans to live in London with her partner six months a year.On April 27, 2011 on The Today Show she said that she and Matthew Bellamy got engaged the prior week. Their son Bingham Hawn Bellamy was born in July 2011.Hudson has also said that she does not enjoy seeing herself on screen, specifying that she "gets cold... shakes and... sweats" when watching her performances for the first time.In July 2006, Hudson sued the British version of the National Enquirer after it reported she had an eating disorder, describing her as "painfully thin". Hudson said the tabloid's statements were "a blatant lie" and she was concerned about the impact the false report could have on impressionable young women. The newspaper apologized and compensated her.

Kate Hudson pregnant – that’s the latest on the “Bride Wars” actress and her rocker boyfriend, Matt Bellamy. The couple are said to be expecting a baby.“It was not planned, but they are excited and embracing it,” a source confided to Us Weekly.Hudson, 31, and Bellamy, 32, have been dating for about nine months.It’s the second child for Hudson and the first for Bellamy, lead singer of U.K. band Muse.Meanwhile Hudson’s father, Bill Hudson, is reportedly hoping to release a tell-all exposé about Goldie Hawn, his ex-wife and Kate Hudson’s mother.He was married to Hawn in 1976 and and they went on to have two children together.Hudson opted-out of the marriage not long after daughter Kate’s birth and has been estranged from Hawn and the kids ever since.However, now he wants to have a relationship with them, says Page Six. It quotes Hudson’s agent saying:“What he really wants is a relationship with his children and he hopes this will help,”Kate Hudson is the proud mother of a “healthy baby boy.” The famous daughter of Goldie Hawn gave birth Saturday evening in Los Angeles, a spokesperson confirms.The new bundle is Kate and fiance Matt Bellamy’s first child together. Hudson also has a 7-year-old son with ex Chris Robinson of the Black Crows, named Ryder Russell.News of Hudson’s pregnancy was reported by Us Weekly in early 2011. She met the Muse lead singer several years ago in Australia. While the actress was at one time hesitant to tie the knot again, she apprently had a change of heart, telling the world on the Today show. The turn-around may have come from the $200,000 rock from Bellamy.Or maybe it is true love. “She’s crazy about him…Kate and Matt are so adorable together,” said a source.Regardless, Hudson has been eager to dish about her pregnancy. In an interview with Marie Claire she revieled, “I love being pregnant. Gosh, I could be pregnant all the time.”She also talked about how it was a little easier this time around. “This is a totally different pregnancy, completely,” she said. “It couldn’t be more opposite…With Ryder, I didn’t even have a nursery. I didn’t really have a house until I was seven months pregnant.”The happy couple plans to return London with their new son, while Bellamy records Muse’s next album.

Kate Hudson: Girl or Boy?

Celebrity couple Kate Hudson and Matt Bellamy was happy for the birth of their baby boy on Saturday night, July 9, 2011 local time. Having had time to become a public question, finally Matt Bellamy who also Muse vocalist released the names of their children. This celebrity couple named their son Bingham Hawn Bellamy.
“Very happy! Recently had a baby boy Bingham ‘Bing’ Hwan Bellamy. Mothers and babies strong and healthy,” Matt Bellamy said in his Twitter account, as quoted from page Femalefirst.
Matt explains, Bingham name is taken from the name of the mother while still young. While Hwan name itself is taken from the name of Hudson mother, who was a famous actress, Goldie Hwan.Previously Kate Hudson has had a boy aged 7 years from the marriage with ex-husband, Chris Robinson.Kate Hudson and Matt did the couple wants their baby boy born in Los Angeles. This was done so that baby will then have two nationalities, namely America and Britain. Matt Bellamy was never revealed, he would be in addition to the Kate Hudson when his fiancee gave birth.
Kate Hudson With Long Straight
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Kate Hudson So Beautiful

Friday, August 5, 2011

Rowan Atkinson Crash

Rowan Atkinson Crash


ACTOR Rowan Atkinson has left hospital in a wheelchair after crashing his high-performance sports car.The 56-year-old Blackadder and Mr Bean star was driving his McLaren F1 supercar when it reportedly spun around several times, ran into a tree and a lamppost, and caught fire.He is believed to have suffered a shoulder injury in the accident on the A605 in Cambridgeshire.A spokesman for Peterborough City Hospital said Atkinson had been admitted on Thursday night. He left via a back door flanked by four security guards at about 3pm yesterday but did not comment.Security guards escorting the wheelchair-bound actor tussled with a cameraman as he left in a Harley Street private ambulance.His agent, Peter Bennett-Jones, said Atkinson had suffered a painful fractured shoulder blade.Mr Bennett-Jones said: "I haven't spoken to him yet, but I understand he has a fractured shoulder blade, which is very painful and why he needed to stay in overnight."Firefighters also confirmed the actor's McLaren F1 had been on fire after it span off the road.A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: ''There was a small fire in the engine, which is at the back of the vehicle, but it was quickly extinguished with one hose reel.''Photographs of the 240mph car being loaded on to the back of a tow truck showed serious rear damage to the expensive carbon-fibre bodywork.McLaren are set to take the vehicle to the company headquarters in Woking, Surrey, to assess the damage.A spokesman for McLaren said: "We are discussing with his team about bringing it back to assess the damage and look at repairing it."It has a carbon-fibre chassis, which is more repairable than normal cars."He added: "Our first concern was Rowan, and we're pleased that he is stable."We have a responsible team at McLaren and we keep in touch with F1 owners around the world. The first thing we do is make sure the car is safe. We will then investigate it and any work that is required we will be happy to undertake."Atkinson, a well-known car enthusiast, recently topped the leader board in the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" contest on the BBC's Top Gear.
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actor.Atkinson, the youngest of four brothers, was born in Consett, County Durham, England. His parents were Eric Atkinson, a farmer and company director, and Ella May (née Bainbridge), who married on 29 June 1945. His three older brothers were Paul, who died as an infant, Rodney, a Eurosceptic economist who narrowly lost the United Kingdom Independence Party leadership election in 2000, and Rupert. Atkinson was brought up Anglican, and was educated at Durham Choristers School, St. Bees School, and Newcastle University. In 1975, he continued for the degree of MSc in Electrical Engineering at The Queen's College, Oxford, the same college his father matriculated at in 1935, which made Atkinson an Honorary Fellow in 2006. First achieving notice at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1976, while at Oxford, he also acted and performed early sketches for the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS), the Oxford Revue and the Experimental Theatre Club (ETC), meeting writer Richard Curtis and composer Howard Goodall, with whom he would continue to collaborate during his career.
Atkinson's film career began in 1983 with a supporting part in the 'unofficial' James Bond movie Never Say Never Again and a leading role in Dead on Time with Nigel Hawthorne. He appeared in former Not the Nine O'Clock News co-star Mel Smith's directorial debut The Tall Guy in 1989. He also appeared alongside Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling in Roald Dahl's The Witches in 1990. In 1993 he played the part of Dexter Hayman in Hot Shots! Part Deux, a parody of Rambo III, starring Charlie Sheen.Atkinson gained further recognition with his turn as a verbally bumbling vicar in the 1994 hit Four Weddings and a Funeral. That same year he was featured in Walt Disney's The Lion King as Zazu the Red-billed Hornbill. Atkinson continued to appear in supporting roles in successful comedies, including Rat Race (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), and Love Actually (2003).In 2005, he acted in the crime/comedy Keeping Mum, which also starred Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze.In addition to his supporting roles, Atkinson has also had success as a leading man. His television character Mr. Bean debuted on the big screen in 1997 with Bean to international success. A sequel, Mr. Bean's Holiday, was released in March 2007 and may be the last time he plays the character. He has also starred in the James Bond parody Johnny English in 2003. Its sequel, Johnny English Reborn will be released in 2011.Best known for his use of physical comedy in his trademark character of Mr. Bean, Atkinson's other characters rely more heavily on language. Atkinson often plays authority figures (especially priests or vicars) speaking absurd lines with a completely deadpan delivery.One of his better-known trademark comic devices is over-articulation of the "B" sound, such as his pronunciation of "Bob" in a Blackadder episode. Atkinson suffers from stuttering,and the over-articulation is a technique to overcome problematic consonants.Atkinson's often visually based style, which has been compared to Buster Keaton, sets him apart from most modern television and film comedies, which rely heavily on dialogue, as well as stand-up comedy which is mostly based on monologues. This talent for visual comedy has led to Atkinson being called "the man with the rubber face": comedic reference was made to this in an episode of Blackadder the Third, in which Baldrick (Tony Robinson) refers to his master, Mr. E. Blackadder, as a "lazy, big nosed, rubber-faced bastard".
Atkinson first met Sunetra Sastry in the 1980s, who was working as a make-up artist with the BBC.Sastry is of mixed descent, being the daughter of an Indian father and a British mother.The couple married at the Russian Tea Room in New York City in 1990. They have two children and live in Oundle, Northamptonshire as well as Ipsden, Oxfordshire and Highbury, London. In October 2010, his Blackadder co-star Stephen Fry confessed on The Rob Brydon Show that he had contemplated asking Sastry out (she was a make-up artist on the series), but discovered she was going on a date with Atkinson and kept quiet. Fry was best man at Atkinson's wedding in 1990. Atkinson was formerly in a relationship with actress Leslie Ash.

Filmography

1979 The Secret Policeman's Ball
1981 Fundamental Frolics
1982 The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1983 Dead on Time
1983 Never Say Never Again
1989 The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
1989 The Tall Guy
1990 The Witches
1991 The Driven Man
1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux
1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 The Lion King
1997 Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie
2000 Maybe Baby
2001 Rat Race
2002 Scooby-Doo
2003 Johnny English
2003 Love Actually
2005 Keeping Mum
2007 Mr. Bean's Holiday
2011 Johnny English Reborn
Atkinson, who also played Blackadder in the BBC comedy series, is well known as a car enthusiast and has admitted he “derives pleasure from anything four-wheeled, from a go-kart to a Bentley”.He produced a documentary about his love of cars called The Driven Man and has raced a 1950s MK7 Jaguar and a 1986 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Zagato competitively.
With an estimated wealth of £100million he is able to indulge his passion, owning a collection of rare cars including a £125,000 Aston Martin Virage, a vintage Rolls Royce and an old Morris Traveller.In 1997 he paid £650,000 for the McLaren F1 – then the world’s fastest and most expensive car – to celebrate the success of the Mr Bean movie. Today, F1s change hands for around £2million. A delivery mileage model sold at auction for £2.53million in 2008.
Atkinson recently topped the leader board for Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on the BBC’s Top Gear and told presenter Jeremy Clarkson of his pride in the McLaren.


Star in a Reasonably Priced Car: Rowan Atkinson - Top Gear - BBC Two

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen, Matt Lucas and Stephen Fry.The film is inspired by Lewis Carroll's 1865 fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Wasikowska plays the now nineteen-year-old Alice who, 13 years after her previous visit, returns for the first time as a young woman. She is told that she is the only one who can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon-like creature controlled by the Red Queen who terrorizes Underland's inhabitants.The film premiered in London at the Odeon Leicester Square on February 25, 2010, and was released in Australia on March 4, 2010, and the United States and the United Kingdom on March 5, 2010, through IMAX 3D and Disney Digital 3D, as well as in traditional theaters. Despite its short theatrical release window and mixed reviews, the film grossed over $1 billion worldwide. At the 83rd Academy Awards, Alice in Wonderland won for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. As of July 2011, it is the eighth highest-grossing film of all time.

Plot
Troubled by a strange recurring dream and mourning the loss of her beloved father, nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsleigh attends a garden party at Lord Ascot's estate, where she is confronted by an unwanted marriage proposal and the stifling expectations of the society in which she lives. Unsure of how to reply, and increasingly confused, she runs away to chase after a rabbit in a blue waistcoat, and accidentally falls into a large rabbit hole. She is transported to a world called Underland, where she is greeted by the White Rabbit, the Dormouse, the Dodo, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They argue over her identity as "the right Alice", who it is foretold will slay the Red Queen's Jabberwocky on the Frabjous Day and restore the White Queen to power. The group is then ambushed by the Bandersnatch and a group of playing-card soldiers led by the Knave of Hearts. Alice escapes and flees into the woods.The Knave informs the Red Queen that Alice has returned to Underland and threatens her reign, and the soldiers are ordered to find Alice immediately. Meanwhile, the wandering Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat, who takes her to the March Hare and the Hatter. On the way to the White Queen's castle, Hatter relates the terror of the Red Queen's reign, and comments that Alice is not the same as she once was. The Hatter helps Alice avoid capture by allowing himself to be seized instead. Later, Alice is found by Bayard the Bloodhound, who wishes to take her to the White Queen, but Alice insists upon helping the Hatter, so they go to the Red Queen's castle.The Red Queen is unaware of Alice's true identity and therefore welcomes her as a guest. Alice learns that the Vorpal Sword (the only weapon capable of killing the Jabberwocky) is locked away in a case inside the Bandersnatch's den. The Knave crudely attempts to seduce Alice, but she rebuffs him. She later manages to retrieve the sword and befriend the Bandersnatch. The Knave finds her with the sword and attempts to arrest her. Alice escapes on the back of the Bandersnatch and delivers the sword to the White Queen. The Cheshire Cat saves the Hatter from execution, and the Hatter calls for rebellion against the Red Queen. The rebellion is quickly put down by Jubjub bird. The resistance flees to the White Queen's castle, and both armies prepare for battle. Alice remains unsure about the expectation for her to champion the White Queen, and meets with Absolem the Caterpillar. He reminds Alice of her past visit to Underland (which she mistakenly called "Wonderland" at the time) thirteen years earlier, and helps give her the courage to fight the Jabberwocky.When the Frabjous Day arrives, both the White and Red Queens gather their armies on a chessboard-like battlefield and send forth their chosen champions (armor-clad Alice and the Jabberwocky respectively) to decide the fate of Underland. Encouraging herself with the words of her late father, Alice manages to kill the Jabberwocky. The White Queen then banishes the Red Queen and the Knave to the Outlands, and gives Alice a vial of the Jabberwocky’s blood, which will take her home. The Hatter suggests that she could stay in Underland, but she decides that she must go back and promises that she will return.Alice returns home, where she stands up to her family and pledges to live life on her own terms. Impressed, Lord Ascot takes her in as his apprentice, with the idea of establishing oceanic trade routes to China. As the story closes, Alice prepares to set off on a trading ship. Absolem, now a butterfly, lands on her shoulder. Alice recognizes him and greets him before he flutters away.

Cast and characters
*Mia Wasikowska as Alice Kingsleigh. When creating the character, screenwriter Linda Woolverton researched how young women were expected to behave in the Victorian era and then made her the opposite.Wasikowska read Carroll's books as a child and re-read them to prepare for her role. She also watched Jan Švankmajer's Alice. She said, "When we were kids, my mum would pop it in the VCR player. We would be disturbed, and wouldn't really understand it, but we couldn't look away because it was too intriguing. So I had kept that feeling about Alice, a kind of haunting feeling."Although facing pressures to conform to society's expectations, Alice grows into a stronger-willed and empowered heroine who chooses her own path; Independent columnist Liz Hoggard praised Alice as a role model for girls, describing the character as "stubborn, brave, [and] non-girlie". Mairi Ella Challen portrayed Alice as a six-year-old.
*Johnny Depp as Tarrant Hightopp, the Mad Hatter. Wasikowska said that the characters "both feel like outsiders and feel alone in their separate worlds, and have a special bond and friendship." Burton explained that Depp "tried to find a grounding to the character... as opposed to just being mad."Burton also said that, "In a lot of versions it's a very one-note kind of character and you know [Depp's] goal was to try and bring out a human side to the strangeness of the character." The orange hair is an allusion to the mercury poisoning suffered by milliners who used mercury to cure felt, Depp believes that the character "was poisoned... and it was coming out through his hair, through his fingernails and eyes".Depp and Burton decided that the Mad Hatter's clothes, skin, hair, personality and accent would change throughout the film to reflect his emotions.In an interview with Depp, the character was paralleled to "...a mood ring, [as] his emotions are very close to the surface".The Mad Hatter is "made up of different people and their extreme sides", with a gentle voice much like the character's creator Lewis Carroll reflecting the lighter personality and with a Scottish Glaswegian accent (which Depp modeled after Gregor Fisher's Rab C. Nesbitt character) reflecting a darker, more dangerous personality. Illusionary dancer David "Elsewhere" Bernal doubled for Depp during the "Futterwacken" sequence near the end of the film.
*Helena Bonham Carter as Iracebeth of Crims, the Red Queen, which is a combination of the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. Her first name is a play on the word irascible, as she is easily irritated and quick to anger.Bonham Carter's head was digitally increased to three times its original size on screen.The character hates animals, choosing to use them as servants and furniture. The actress took inspiration from her young daughter Nell, a toddler, stating that, "The Red Queen is just like a toddler, because she’s got a big head and she’s a tyrant. Toddlers have no sympathy for any living creature", adding, "Nell just bosses us around with no 'please' or 'thank yous.'"
*Anne Hathaway as Mirana of Marmoreal, the White Queen. She was one of few characters that did not require digital manipulation.Hathaway summed up her character with a caption on a magnet of Happy Bunny holding a knife; "Cute but psycho. Things even out." According to Hathaway, "She comes from the same gene pool as the Red Queen. She really likes the dark side, but she's so scared of going too far into it that she's made everything appear very light and happy. But she's living in that place out of fear that she won't be able to control herself." Hathaway described her interpretation of the White Queen as "a punk-rock vegan pacifist", with inspiration drawn from Blondie, Greta Garbo, and the artwork of Dan Flavin.Burton said that the White Queen's appearance was inspired by Nigella Lawson.
*Crispin Glover played Ilosovic Stayne, the Knave of Hearts. The character is arrogant and tricky, and while following the Red Queen's every order, he is the only one capable of calming her dramatic mood swings. Glover said, "The Red Queen has a fair amount of short-tempered reactions to things that people do, and so [the Knave] has to be quite diplomatic." Stayne's body was completely CGI with only Glover's head being live-action.
*Matt Lucas portrayed both Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Burton commented on the mixture of animation and Lucas, saying that "It's a weird mixture of things which gives his characters the disturbing quality that they so richly deserve."
*Marton Csokas as Charles Kingsley, Alice’s father
*Lindsay Duncan as Helen Kingsley, Alice’s mother
*Jemma Powell as Margaret, Alice's sister
*Frances de la Tour as Imogene, Alice's aunt.
*John Hopkins as Lowell, Alice's sister's husband.
*Tim Piggott-Smith as Lord Ascot
*Geraldine James as Lady Ascot
*Leo Bill as Hamish Ascot, Alice's fiancé and the son of Lord Ascot.



Alice in Wonderland - New Official Full Trailer

Alice in Wonderland Wallpaper

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp (born June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American actor. His full name is John Christopher Depp II.He is the son of an engineer and a waitress. He grew up with his brother and his sister and spent a lot of time with his grandfather. When his grandfather died, Depp was seven years old. His family went to Florida and in the next years, they had to change homes often. Johnny became worse at school and had his first experiences with drugs at the age of 15. He was thrown out of school and started to make music in a band called The Flame, and later on The Kids. His ex-wife is Lori Anne Allison (Lori A. Depp). She introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage. He has a daughter, Lily-Rose and son Jack with his partner, French singer Vanessa Paradis.His first movie was Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, which was quite a success. Afterwards, he decided to go to an acting school in Los Angeles. He got a small part in the movie Platoon and shortly after this, he was offered a part in the TV series 21 Jump Street which he first turned down but finally accepted.Since then he has been a star. Young people loved him, but this was not what he liked, so he took drugs and was in the news because of this. But his career went on and he played in lots of movies.Depp is one of Hollywood's most popular actors who can play in a huge range of roles. Normally he plays rather odd characters, for example in Finding Neverland. He is not only liked for his look but also for his talent to act and his incomparable gestures.Depp lives in France but also has a home in the States. Depp has been getting used to the fact of living around French people, but his French is truthfully not completely accurate. Depp has also bought a nice, relaxing island that helps him calm his nerves. Throughout his lifetime, Depp has been through several occupations. He owned a club; The Viper Room.
Movies

Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Private Resort (1985)
Cry-Baby (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Benny and Joon (1993)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
Don Juan De Marco (1994)
Dead Man (1995)
Donnie Brasco (1996)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Chocolat (2000)
Blow (2000)
From Hell (2001)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
Secret Window (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
The Corpse Bride (Voice, 2005)
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 : Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 : At World's End (2007)
Sweeney Todd the demon barber of fleet street (2008)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Pirates of the Caribbean 4 : On Stranger Tides(2011)

Depp's first major role was in the 1984 classic horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street, playing the boyfriend of the heroine, Nancy Thompson, (played by Heather Langenkamp) and one of Freddy Krueger's victims. Depp was the first choice and was cast to star in the now classic, 1986 American skater drama film Thrashin', chosen and cast by the director but ultimately rejected by the films producer. In 1986, he appeared in a secondary role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Platoon. In 1990 he undertook the quirky title role of the Tim Burton film, Edward Scissorhands. The film's success began his long association with Burton.Depp, a fan and long-time friend of writer Hunter S. Thompson, played a version of Thompson (named Raoul Duke) in 1998's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, based on the writer's pseudobiographical novel of the same name. Depp accompanied Thompson as his road manager on one of the author's last book tours.In 2006, Depp contributed a foreword to Gonzo: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson, a posthumous biography published by ammobooks.com. Depp paid for most of Thompson's memorial event, complete with fireworks and the shooting of Thompson's ashes by a cannon, in Aspen, Colorado, where Thompson lived.Critics have described Depp's roles as characters who are "iconic loners." Depp has noted this period of his career was full of "studio defined failures" and films that were "box office poison,"but he thought the studios never understood the films and did not do a good job of marketing. Depp has chosen roles which he found interesting, rather than those he thought would succeed at the box office.The 2003 Walt Disney Pictures film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was a major success, in which Depp's performance as the suave pirate Captain Jack Sparrow was highly praised. Studio bosses were more ambivalent at first,but the character became popular with the movie-going public.According to a survey taken by Fandango, Depp was a major draw for audiences.The film's director, Gore Verbinski, has said that Depp's character closely resembles the actor's personality, but Depp said he modeled the character after Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.Depp was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the role.In 2004, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, for playing Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film Finding Neverland. Depp next starred as Willy Wonka in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a major success at the box office and earning him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.Depp returned to the role of Jack Sparrow for the sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which opened on July 7, 2006 and grossed $135.5 million in the first three days of its U.S. release, breaking a box office record of the highest weekend tally. The next sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End, was released May 24, 2007. Depp has said that Sparrow is "definitely a big part of me", and he wants to play the role in further sequels.Depp voiced Sparrow in the video game, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.Johnny Depp's swashbuckling sword talents as developed for the character of Jack Sparrow, were highlighted in the documentary film Reclaiming the Blade. Within the film, Swordmaster Bob Anderson shared his experiences working with Depp on the choreography for The Curse of the Black Pearl. Anderson, who also trained Errol Flynn, another famous Hollywood pirate, described in the film Depp's ability as an actor to pick up the sword to be "about as good as you can get."Depp and Gore Verbinski were executive producers of the album Rogues Gallery, Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys. Depp played the title role of Sweeney Todd in Tim Burton's film adaptation of the musical, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Depp thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and praised Tim Burton for his "unwavering trust and support."Depp played the former Heath Ledger character in the 2009 film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus along with Jude Law and Colin Farrell. All three actors gave their salaries from the film to Ledger's daughter, Matilda. He portrayed the Mad Hatter in Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and the titular character in Rango.

Celebrities has been a sought-after since they have creating a great movies like movie star and celebrity poker player Johnny Depp that has been mentioned as possibly the greatest actor living; apparently he's not too bad at poker either, and he takes his cards as seriously as his performances. While on the set of the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean", Johnny Depp engaged in numerous poker games with cast and crew to pass the time off camera. Among his companions in the card games were the members of the indie rock band We Were Scientists.The band members were starstruck to be interacting with Johnny Depp on a personal level, and it seemed to them he was as much in awe of their music as they of his acting. He impressed bass player Chris Cain with the idea that " he's always dreamed of being a rock star." But, as the game progressed, the band members found themselves taking a beating at Johnny Depp's hands. Now Johnny Depp is claiming the band collectively owes him $28,000. In their defense, the band says they weren't able to focus on poker due to the excitement of meeting and playing with Johnny Depp.Lead singer Keith Murray said they were not the only participants fleeced by Johnny Depp, asserting that there were rumors that Orlando Bloom had lost over $800,000 to Depp. Still, Orlando Bloom's debt may have been settled, and neither the presence of other debts nor any light-headedness the band felt in Depp's presence would excuse a legal debt.
About Johnny Depp: Johnny Depp once said of himself: "I'm not Mr. Blockbuster." Nonetheless, his movies usually fare quite well with audiences and critics alike, only not always in tandem. Before his stardom, Johnny Depp joined a rock band called The Flame, with whom he toured the Florida nightclub circuit. The Flame eventually dubbed themselves The Kids, and the band was hired as the opening act on an Iggy Pop tour. Hoping to strike a chord as famous rockers, The Kids moved to Los Angeles. Johnny Depp took a job selling ballpoint pens over the phone in order to support himself, but he and his fellow rockers decided to break up and move on.Bigger and better things awaited Johnny Depp, who at the time was married to makeup artist Lori Allison. Their marriage was short-lived, but it did lead to something: Lori introduced Johnny Depp to Nicolas Cage who saw star potential in the young Johnny Depp. Thanks to their encounter, Johnny Depp was cast in his feature film debut -- the slasher Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984.

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 : On Stranger Tides

Some of the awards that Depp has won include honors from the London Film Critics Circle (1996), Russian Guild of Film Critics (1998), Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004) and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. At the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, he won the award for "Best Villain" for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd and "Best Comedic Performance" for Jack Sparrow. Depp has been nominated for three Academy Awards, in 2004 for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, in 2005 for Finding Neverland, and in 2008 for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Depp won his first Golden Globe for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in 2008.
Depp has around 13 tattoos, many of them signifying important persons or events in his life. They include a Native American in profile and a ribbon reading "Wino Forever" (originally "Winona Forever", altered after his breakup with Winona Ryder) on his right biceps, "Lily-Rose" (his daughter's name) over his heart, "Betty Sue" (his mother's name) on his left biceps, and a sparrow flying over water with the word "Jack" (his son's name; the sparrow is flying towards him rather than away from him as it is in Pirates of the Caribbean) on his right forearm.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises

he Dark Knight Rises is an upcoming superhero film under the development of Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, and Jonathan Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film will be the third and final installment in Nolan's Batman film series. The film is scheduled for release in the United States and Canada on July 20, 2012, by Warner Bros.Details on The Dark Knight Rises are pretty scarce. This is perhaps not surprising as the eighth scheduled big screen outing for Batman is not due out for the better part of two years, will not start shooting for another six months and reportedly won't even have a finished script till after Christmas. But that doesn't preclude a delve into some of the latest rumours about this most anticipated of movies.Jonathan Lethem might have reckoned The Dark Knight was “reprehensible, vacuous, self-congratulatory bulls**t” but that stated opinion left the Fortress of Solitude author rather resembling a man minus his trunks after the tide has gone out, so rapturous was the reception of that film in most other quarters. Christopher Nolan's sequel to his own Batman Begins proved to be one of a tiny handful of internet age blockbusters to not only live up to the tsunami of pre-release hype, but to actually surpass it. The geek squad delighted in the treatment afforded to their comic book idol, while the serious cineastes who had been following Nolan since Memento got ample chance to give their chins a serious old scratch as they ruminated on his 21st century vision of the hero archetype.If all of that ensured that Nolan's third Bat-flick, The Dark Knight Rises, would be somewhat eagerly awaited then further fuel was added to the fires of antecedent excitement when the British director even managed to fashion a summer smash out of his ostensibly tricky Inception (tricky at least in terms of tentpole releases). And yet The Dark Knight Rises, as a threequel, would appear to represent perhaps the toughest test to date for the filmmaker. Plenty would suggest that Sam Raimi and Bryan Singer produced Spider-Man and X-Men follow-ups which were superior to their spawning chapters, only for both those franchises to come a cropper in their third outings (not Singer's fault in the X-case, mind). So can Nolan's apparent Midas touch ensure that Batman doesn't falter where Spidey and Wolverine stumbled previously?

Cast
*Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman,a billionaire socialite dedicated to protecting Gotham City from the criminal underworld
*Sir Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth,Bruce's trusted butler and adviser
*Gary Oldman as James Gordon, commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department
*Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
*Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle
*Tom Hardy as Bane. Hardy has stated that he intends to portray the character as "more menacing" than in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin and gained 30 pounds (14 kg) of muscle for the role, increasing his weight to 198 pounds (90 kg).
*Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, "a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help a still-grieving Bruce Wayne resume his father's philanthropic endeavors for Gotham"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake, "a Gotham City beat cop" Juno Temple as a "street-smart Gotham girl"
*Josh Pence and Liam Neeson as Ra's al Ghul, with the former playing a young version of the character in scenes to take place thirty years before the events of Batman Begins and the latter reportedly reprising his Batman Begins role in a cameo appearance
*Nestor Carbonell as Mayor Anthony Garcia
*Matthew Modine as Nixon
*Brett Cullen as a judge
*Chris Ellis as a priest
*Alon Abutbul as "a mad scientist"
Aaron Eckhart had expressed enthusiasm to return for a sequel if asked, although he later stated Nolan verified that his character, Harvey Dent, is dead.Variety announced that actors Tom Conti and Joey King also had roles.King confirmed her role on her Twitter. Christopher Judge announced that he had been cast in "a role" in the film, also via Twitter.


The Dark Knight Rises - Official Teaser Trailer

The Dark Knight Rises: The facts
Although relatively little has been confirmed about The Dark Knight Rises to date, there are still a few axioms on which any further speculation can be hung. On the most basic level we know that Nolan is returning as director and that Christian Bale will be reprising his joint role as Bruce Wayne and the Caped Crusader. We know Nolan has again written the script with his younger brother Jonah, the same combination as on The Dark Knight, and that said script is based on a story sketched out by the director and David S. Goyer, his collaborator on Batman Begins. Oh, and from the noises both have been making, this sounds like it will be the last Bat-outing for Nolan and Bale alike.
We know that both of Harvey Dent/Two-Face and the Joker won't be back. But Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman will all be reprising their franchise roles as Jim Gordon, loyal butler Alfred Pennyworth and Lucius Fox. That returning cast will be definitely joined by new face Tom Hardy, though who he will play we don't yet know. The film won't be shooting in 3D, it will be shooting in IMAX. It will not, however (and as previously rumoured), be entirely shooting in IMAX, at least not according to Nolan's cinematographer Wally Pfister. We also know that the villain, or either of the villains, won't be the Riddler. Nor – quelle surprise – that cursed-by-Arnold opponent, Mr. Freeze.
We know Jonah Nolan has finished his draft of the screenplay and that Christopher will complete his rewrite by January of next year. The cameras are due to start rolling the following May, with New Orleans one of the locations that the shoot will visit. And we know that audiences get to pass their considered judgement on the results of these endeavours when The Dark Knight Rises finally opens on 20 July 2012.
That above discharge of info now leaves us swimming very much in the waters of hyperbole, speculation and innuendo as we toy with some of the main rumours pertaining to casting and possible plotlines. So, let's dive on in there...
Plotlines
The one story element we know for sure about the new film is that it picks up where The Dark Knight left off, with Batman effectively having gone rogue in the eyes of populace of Gotham City, the formerly respected vigilante now a figure of fear and hatred for the regular citizens. It also doesn't take the deductive powers of Hercule Poirot to figure out that the title of the new movie, The Dark Knight Rises, indicates that this will be a redemptive chapter for Batman, as he 'rises' again as protector of the innocent in Gotham. But at the outset at the flick, he will be at his lowest ebb, at least in terms of public opinion. A bit like a cowled Nick Clegg.
The rumour that Collider relayed is that into this dramatic space Nolan will weave a plot based on the comic book story arc 'Prey', written by Doug Moench, and which first appeared in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. That series is set in the Caped Crusader's early years, soon after the origin story of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, a graphic novel that heavily influenced Nolan's Batman Begins.
The 'Prey' plotline sees Gotham City psychologist Hugo Strange triggering the creation of a municipal task force charged with capturing Batman. The force includes Max Cort and is overseen by Commissioner Gordon, who finds his loyalties torn between his professional duties and his old ally. The rub is that Strange is not all there himself, turning out to be fixated upon Batman and obsessed with the idea of usurping him – something he thinks he can achieve by killing him.
So, he hatches a scheme to do just that, with his chances of success boosted by the fact he has figured out that Bruce Wayne and Batman are one and the same. Now, whether Nolan does indeed use 'Prey' as basis for his story, that seems one thread he may very well explore; the ripping away of Batman's final safety blanket, in the form of his secret identity. The one thing though that makes you wonder if Strange really will feature is that the bonkers psychologist might be seen as treading too closely to the bonkers psychiatrist territory trodden by the Scarecrow/Jonathan Crane in Batman Begins.
Villains
The early blue sky casting sessions conducted by the fans for Nolan's Batman threequel found Philip Seymour Hoffman playing the Penguin and Johnny Depp squeezing into the Riddler's emerald long johns. We now know for certain that the latter won't be appearing, and there's been nothing since to suggest that the Penguin won't be joining him in an unloved and unused filmic oblivion.
Similarly unsubstantiated was the thought that Killer Croc could show up, a notion based almost entirely on the use of New Orleans as a filming location. It's a faint rumour that observers have given very little credence to though, with most noting that Nolan seems to favour antagonists who can challenge the Caped Crusader on an intellectual and ideological level, as Ra's al Ghul and the Joker did, rather than just someone who can give him a physical workout.
At the start of November, Tom Hardy was confirmed as having joined the production, a development that many had been predicting and that left most very pleased, given that the Brit actor was perhaps the one unqualified hit of Inception, exhibiting genuine star quality while his fellow cast members mooched around with all the charisma of attendees at a vacuum cleaner sales conference. We don't know as yet who Hardy will be playing, although early suggestions were that he might be one of two unruly Gotham cops: Harvey Bullock, a detective with a specific distaste for Batman, or Max Cort, a more psychotic lawman who abhors all vigilantes in general.
More recently Hardy has been tipped to take the role of the more typically villainous Hugo Strange, originally introduced by Batman creator Bob Kane as a nefarious scientist in his comic book incarnation in 1940, before being recast as a psychologist. And a rumour reported by Collider at the start of this week advised how a Hardy-embodied Strange might slot into the story of The Dark Knight Rises.
Actresses
However whether Hardy is playing Strange or not, it seems certain The Dark Knight Rises will find Bale's Batman facing off against his first female foe. Roughly a week after Hardy's casting had been confirmed, Deadline New York reported that Nolan had begun meeting actresses in regard to two female parts he was looking cast – a new love interest to replace the deceased Rachel Dawes, and a villainness. The half-dozen actresses named were Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Keira Knightley, and Blake Lively (who Batman backers Warners and Legendary are thought to be slightly ga-ga over after her showing in The Town).
A comic book blockbuster would not represent completely fresh territory for several of those names, with Portman and Lively appearing next summer as the female leads in Thor and Green Lantern respectively, while Anne Hathaway was hotly-tipped to feature in the Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man 4 that never was. Rachel Weisz, meanwhile, appeared in 2005's Constantine, sired by the DC Comics series, Hellblazer, and Watts showed up in dimly-recalled flop Tank Girl, based on the strip co-created by Jamie Hewlett. No character names have been thus far forthcoming in regard to the two roles reputedly on offer, though the disparity in the ages of those named – Weisz and Watts have both hit 40, the other four are all in their 20s – suggests the two older actresses might be up for one part, while the younger quartet compete for another.
One nagging Dark Knight Rises rumour has been that Talia al Ghul could feature, she being the daughter of Ra's al Ghul, the cat's whiskered bad dude played by Liam Neeson in Batman Begins. That character has been both lover and antagonist of Bruce Wayne in her comic book incarnation, indicating that if she is used she will be a similarly ambiguously volatile presence to Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman from Batman Returns.
Talia al Ghul almost made it to the silver screen a few years previously, in the Justice League of America movie that Mad Max director George Miller was attached to, before budgetary and script concerns prompted the abortion of that particular project. On that occasion Talia would have been played by Australian actress Teresa Palmer (while the role of Batman would have been filled by Armie Hammer, aka the Winklevoss twins from The Social Network), and Movieweb recently grabbed a word with the star of The Sorcerer's Apprentice and DreamWorks' upcoming I Am Number Four, and asked her if she had tried contacting Nolan to see if there was any possibility of her finally getting to play Talia al Ghul. Here is what she said:
“I've definitely put the feelers out there with my agents and that would be something I would be really glad to have happen. I doubt I would be one of the actresses high up on Nolan's list. I think they are definitely going after a woman with a much bigger profile than I.”
Interpret that how you will. Is Palmer just putting her name in the hat in case that specific role does come up? Quite possibly. Apparently, none even of Bale, Hardy or Caine have yet seen any kind of script, and studios are supposedly going to extraordinary lengths to keep plot details of their big films under wraps these days (when Sony were casting the female lead in theirSpider-Man reboot, the actresses reading for the part – of which Palmer was reportedly one – didn't even know which character they were trying out for). But it could always be possible that Palmer has heard something on the casting grapevine. And if Talia al Ghul does indeed feature in The Dark Knight Rises, it will come as a surprise to very few.
In May 2011, the film's official website was launched, introducing a viral marketing campaign similar to the one used to promote The Dark Knight; however, 42 Entertainment, the company behind the viral marketing campaign for The Dark Knight, will not be returning for The Dark Knight Rises. When the website was opened, an encrypted audio file played the noise of what has been described as chanting. When the audio file was decrypted, it gave a link to the film's official Twitter account. For every person who commented on the Twitter account, a pixel was removed from the webpage, eventually revealing the first official image of Bane.
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