Rosario Dawson loved comedy in Zookeeper

Rosario Dawson has revealed that she particularly enjoyed the physical comedy aspect in Zookeeper.


The Sin City star stated that she found her latest film to be a nice change of pace after taking on a variety of serious roles.


"The physical comedy stuff was actually the best stuff for me," Dawson said in an interview with Hollywood News. "I'm a pretty goofy person who can be very demonstrative, so that was great for me to not have to sell every emotion with just a look, being super subtle and burying the context in one line."


Dawson continued: "It was about whole scenes, having that much fun where you can really disappear into a moment and have a great time. It was just fantastic to have that many moments in one film."


Watch a trailer for Zookeeper below:

The Inbetweeners Movie new trailer released

Warning: This article contains language and/or sexual references that younger readers are advised to avoid.

The Inbetweeners Movie trailer has debuted online.

The new 2 minute, 7 second video, which follows on from the release of last month's teaser trailer, shows Will (Simon Bird), Simon (Joe Thomas), Jay (James Buckley) and Neil (Blake Harrison) heading out on a lads' holiday in Mali after graduating from sixth from.

Regulars from the TV series Emily Head, Belinda Stewart-Wilson and Greg Davies will return for the film, with newcomers Lydia Rose Bewley, Laura Haddock, Jessica Knappett and Tamla Kari rounding out the cast.

The Inbetweeners writer Damon Beesley recently said that the movie represents the "final piece of the jigsaw" for the E4 sitcom's characters.

The Inbetweeners Movie opens in cinemas on August 19

 

Watch the Inbetweeners Movie trailer below:

Rebecca Gibney lands dream role in Mental

Rebecca Gibney has revealed her excitement at landing a "dream" movie role.

The Australian actress, who is best known for playing Julie in family television drama Packed to the Rafters, has been cast alongside Toni Collette in PJ Hogan's new gritty film Mental.

Gibney told The Daily Telegraph: "I'm 46 and it's my first big film. It's dreamy... it's a dream come true. I've had a few small roles but just little bits and pieces and this is a larger role and to work alongside Toni Collette... it's great. I'm really excited."

She also revealed that it has been "fun" having to put on 12kg to play an exhausted mother-of-five in the movie, saying: "It was great. It's like being pregnant. You can eat whatever you want. In the beginning it was like, `Wow, ice cream, peanut butter, everything', you know."

However, Gibney added that she is "not going to worry about" losing the weight straight away afterwards, as "Julie Rafter is an "older mum" and she doesn't "think there will be anything wrong with carrying a bit of extra weight".

The star has previously admitted that she sometimes suffers from body image issues, saying: "When I despair about my stomach, my husband reminds me that it carried our incredibly beautiful son. I still look in the mirror and wonder where that extra roll, the cellulite and wrinkles came from."

Filming on Mental is scheduled to start in two weeks' time and will hopefully wrap three weeks before Gibney resumes filming Packed to the Rafters in October.

Gibney was nominated for two Logie Awards earlier this year. Although she missed out on the prestigious Gold Logie award, she was named 'Most Popular Actress' for her Packed to the Rafters role.

Watson plotting Potter cast reunion

Emma Watson has said she is already "scheming" to find a way to work with Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint again.

The stars of the hit film series have grown up together, working on the films over the last 10 years, but at the final world premiere in London's Trafalgar Square an emotional Emma revealed they are already looking to the future.

She said: "They are like my brothers. I really hope we'll find a way to work together again. We're already scheming so..."

JK Rowling who wrote the best-selling books which created the magical world, previously said this was the end of the series.

But after being moved by the thousands of fans who had travelled from all over the world for the premiere, she joked she might write another instalment.

Rowling teased: "Well if Dan phones me and begs in ten years I'll bang out a script for him! But I'm not thinking that's going to happen..."

One of the film's new stars, Arthur Bowen, who plays Harry Potter's son at the end of the film, held out some hope a new generation might keep the stories going.

He said: "We'll have to ask JK Rowling to write another book. She's going to be here tonight isn't she? We can ask her."

Tears as Potter curtain comes down

Daniel Radcliffe has told Harry Potter fans the films would be with them "for the rest of their lives".

Thousands of people flooded into central London to say an emotional goodbye to the hugely popular series at the world premiere of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two.

Stars including Emma Watson and Rupert Grint spent hours on the red carpet, which stretched from Trafalgar Square to Leicester Square, signing autographs for fans. The night ended with author JK Rowling joining the cast and crew on a stage in the square where they addressed fans.

Emma, who wiped away tears, thanked her co-star Rupert for making her laugh while he admitted making the films had been "the best part of my life".

Rowling was also tearful thanking the actors for "the amazing things they did for my favourite characters". Turning to the fans, she said: "Thank you for queuing up for the books for all those years, for camping out in a wet Trafalgar Square."

She then pleaded with the fans, who were chanting 'Thank You' back to her, to stop, saying "No, no, I'm already crying."

Daniel Radcliffe got one of the night's biggest cheers when he told fans: "Each and every person, not just here in this square but around the world who have watched these films for the last 10 years, they will always carry the films with them for the rest of their lives".

Fans had been arriving in London all week for the premiere with many of them camping in the square for days, often dressed as characters from the hit films.

Other cast members who walked up the red carpet included Robbie Coltrane, who plays Rubeus Hagrid, Tom Felton who plays Draco Malfoy and Julie Walters who plays Molly Weasley.

Eve Myles Torchwood film would be incredible

Torchwood star Eve Myles has admitted that she would love to star in a film version of the sci-fi drama.

The actress, who plays Gwen Cooper, told Den of Geek that she would "absolutely" be willing to appear in a Torchwood movie.

"[That] would be incredible," said Myles. "It would be sensational to have a beginning, a middle and an end in 90 minutes. A big, walloping Torchwood crunched into 90 minutes would be breathtaking."

Myles also suggested that a Torchwood film would be "a fantastic give back" to the show's loyal viewers.

"If we did do a movie, it would be... fantastic [for] the fans who have followed us from day one," she said. "I think [series creator] Russell [T Davies] is capable of doing anything."

Torchwood: Miracle Day begins tomorrow night at 10pm on Starz in the US and on Thursday, July 14 at 9pm on BBC One in the UK.

Animal Farm For the Big Screen

It’s like everyone is adapting a selection from your high school reading list for the big screen this week! First, David Schwimmer announced that he was commissioning a project based on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and now Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt and star Andy Serkis are working on a performance-capture adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

Entertainment Weekly reports that the project is still “in its early stages” but that the pair, who collaborated on this summer’s Apes blockbuster, will work together on the script and use the actor’s U.K. motion-capture studio The Imaginarium. Serkis, who portrays a gorilla opposite James Franco in Apes, is already set to star as one of the characters.

“I don’t want to give too much away,” Wyatt told EW about the casting of the novel’s memorable characters, which include Napoleon, Snowball and Old Major. “We want to get the best actors for the role,” he says. “It would be the same as if we were doing a stage production. [And] with Andy as our lead-in, I feel that’s good enough for me right now.”

Panasonic says "Hollywood damaged 3D

Panasonic Marketing Director Andrew Denham has criticised Hollywood for releasing substandard 3D movies.

At the recent Intellect Consumer Electronics show he made some pretty scathing remarks

"It all comes back to quality," Denham said. "Hollywood damaged 3D by rushing so many badly converted films out in the Avatar's wake."

He added, "What we need now is the next level, the next Avatar. And that's a big ask, I think."

 

Denham was not alone in his disapproval. Channel Director of Sky 3D John Cassey seemed to agree, "It's very easy to make bad 3D."

He told the show's panel, "At Sky we only make native 3D programmes, and our first stage of production is always to forget about the 3D altogether.”

With industry giants like Panasonic and Sky making such incendiary remarks, could the future of 3D be under threat?

Johnny English Reborn trailer

A new trailer for Johnny English Reborn has been released.

The comedy spy thriller sequel sees Rowan Atkinson reprise his role as bumbling secret agent Johnny English, who must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.

English attempts to grapple with the latest hi-tech gadgets to try to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and MI-7 in order to take out the opposition.

Though the modestly-budgeted Johnny English only pulled in $28 million at the US box office, it turned an impressive profit with $161 million in cinema ticket sales across the globe.

Johnny English Reborn will be released in cinemas on October 7.

Watch the trailer for Johnny English Reborn below:

Rosie: Don't do stunts in heels

Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley has confessed she struggled to balance her taste for high fashion with gruelling stunt scenes during filming of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.

The Burberry model said she tried to integrate her personal style into the role of Carly during her big screen debut.

"I love fashion and it's such a big part of my life," she said. "I really wanted to bring that to my character and make her kind of fashionable."

But the 24-year-old quickly learned the difficulties of wearing heels during filming. "One thing I learned about this movie with the wardrobe was to try and persuade the director not to make you wear heels all the way through an action sequence," she laughed.

"And if you could get jeans that you can fit stunt pads down, that might be a good idea too."

Rosie also spoke about the first-day nerves she experienced on set and how she was scared about what to expect as Megan Fox's replacement.

She revealed: "I was definitely worried that I wasn't going to be welcomed, and you know, I was going to feel like the new girl at school, but no, that really wasn't the case.

"On my first day of work I was so nervous and everybody from the cast to the crew, everybody who worked on that movie came over and introduced themselves and welcomed me to set, and embraced me and said how happy they were for me to be there."

And the Burberry model described how her co-star Shia LaBeouf helped her get through her first film shoot.
"He was always there to help me and hold my hand and baby me through the whole thing," she said.

Jolie and Parker highest paid actresses

Angelina Jolie and Sarah Jessica Parker have topped a new list of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses.

Jolie and Parker tied for first place on Forbes magazine's countdown of the female stars who pulled in the most money between May 2010 and May 2011.

Both actresses are reported to have earned $30 million (£18.7m) over the past 12 months, with the top ten women on the list raking in a combined $218 million (£136m).

Jolie's income came from movies including Salt and The Tourist, while Parker earned from Sex and the City 2 and repeats of the TV show - which she produced - alongside her fashion and beauty lines.

Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon tied for third place on the list, taking home an estimated $28 million each (£17.5), while Julia Roberts and Twilight actress Kristen Stewart also ranked high with purported earnings of $20 million (£12.4m).

Forbes magazine published its list of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood in September, which Johnny Depp topped with estimated earnings of $75 million (£46m).

The list of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses from Forbes is:

1. Angelina Jolie, $30 million
1. Sarah Jessica Parker, $30 million
3. Jennifer Aniston, $28 million
3. Reese Witherspoon, $28 million
5. Julia Roberts, $20 million
5. Kristen Stewart, $20 million
7. Katherine Heigl, $19 million
8. Cameron Diaz, $18 million
9. Sandra Bullock, $15 million
10. Meryl Streep, $10 million

Johnny Depp close to Pirates 5 deal

Johnny Depp could play Captain Jack Sparrow in a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film.

The actor, who is currently filming vampire movie Dark Shadows, is reportedly close to signing a deal for another movie, according to The Wrap.

Depp's agent Tracey Jacobs and studio Disney have not commented on the reports.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the latest instalment in the franchise, yesterday became the eighth movie in history to gross more than $1 billion (£620m) worldwide.

Over three quarters of the film's revenue has been generated outside of the US.

A draft script for a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film has apparently already been prepared as Disney reportedly searches for a potential director.

Depp himself has previously said that his desire to reprise the role of Sparrow would come down to "[the] story, script and filmmaker".

The actor has also recently been linked with a big-screen adaptation of the 2002 novel Carter Beats the Devil.

The Skin I Live In UK trailer

The UK trailer for Pedro Almodóvar's new movie The Skin I Live In has been unveiled.

The drama, which opened to critical acclaim at this year's Cannes Film Festival, stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suarez and Marisa Paredes. The Skin I Live In is based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula, about a plastic surgeon who develops a new skin after seeing his wife horrifically burned in a car accident

The story centres on Banderas's surgeon, Dr Robert Ledgard, as he takes on a human guinea pig to help with his experiments in the form of Vera (Elena Anaya).

Almodóvar and Banderas last worked together 21 years ago on Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. The Skin I Live In will open in UK cinemas on August 26.

Watch the UK trailer for The Skin I Live In below:

Olivia Wilde talks Cowboys & Aliens

Olivia Wilde has spoken exclusively to Total Film about her role in this summer’s Cowboys & Aliens.

When we met up with the actress to chat about the sci-fi western genre mash-up, she was keen to talk up the action side of the role.

“The stunt co-ordinator said, ‘I’ve never pulled an actor off a moving horse. Do you want to do it?’ Stunt guys always get to know me very quickly because I love stunts and they said, ‘If anyone can do it, Olivia can…’”

Cowboys… marked an opportunity for Wilde to work with Bond star Daniel Craig after missing out on Casino Royale: “I screen-tested for that and I wanted it so badly.

“But now I’m happy it didn’t work out because we wouldn’t have been able to do this, and I think he agreed that this was a better pairing for us.”

It seems that working with Craig turned out to be pretty inspirational: “Daniel Craig taught me a lot. He taught me about stillness and silence… he does very little and it’s very impressive.”

So, what about her character, Ella, then? “She’s not just the love interest. She’s not simply sultry. She has a lot in common with Jake and she’s watching him very closely, because any clues he can give her as to where he’s been will help her on her journey.

“She’s been hiding in the town. She wants to fade into the shadows and only comes out when Jake arrives.”

Cowboys & Aliens opens on 19 August 2011.

Jesse Eisenberg would be thrilled to do Zombieland 2

Jesse Eisenberg has said that the cast of Zombieland would be "thrilled" to return for a sequel.

Director Ruben Fleischer and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are working on a script for Zombieland 2 that will reunite apocalypse survivors Columbus (Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin).

Eisenberg said of the follow-up: "I'd be very interested to read it but I think they haven't finished the script. We all, by we I mean the three other actors in the movie, really loved doing it and I'm sure would be thrilled to do another one."

The Social Network star Eisenberg added that it would be difficult to find an A-list actor to top Bill Murray's cameo from the first movie.

"We were so surprised that he showed up to do that, we didn't know until that morning [that he would do it]," he said. "It came together so fortuitously that it would be very difficult to exceed."

Transformers crushes UK box office competition

Transformers: Dark of the Moon has topped the UK box office on its first weekend on release.

Director Michael Bay's 3D robot blockbuster, starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, pulls in £10.7 million in ticket sales after opening in Brit cinemas last Wednesday.

Dark of the Moon's opening surpasses the debut for Transformers in 2007 (£8.7 million) and its 2009 sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (£8.4 million).

Last week's chart leader Bridesmaids slips to number two, but still maintains a healthy second-week gross of £2 million. Kung Fu Panda 2, Bad Teacher and new release Larry Crowne - starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts - complete the top five.

Elsewhere, controversial Bollywood movie Delhi Belly opens at number nine with £155,000.

The UK box office top ten in full:

1. (-) Transformers: Dark of the Moon - £10,728,503
2. (1) Bridesmaids - £2,007,171
3. (2) Kung Fu Panda 2 - £728,598
4. (4) Bad Teacher - £512,069
5. (-) Larry Crowne - £346,486
6. (5) The Hangover Part II - £301,482
7. (3) Green Lantern - £279,485
8. (6) X-Men: First Class - £215,011
9. (-) Delhi Belly - £155,211
10. (7) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - £148,362

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D 2012 release

Lionsgate has announced that its reboot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre will be released in October 2012.

Takers director John Luessenhop will helm the 3D horror feature, while Carl Mazzocone will produce.

"I'm excited to reconceive this iconic horror classic in a contemporary setting for a new generation of horror fans to enjoy," Mazzocone says in a statement released through Shock Till You Drop.

"Both John Luessenhop and I intend to deliver a new chapter derived from Tobe Hooper's 1973 masterpiece with the goal of making it as horrifying as the original, in 3D," he added.

Bill Moseley, who starred in both The Devil's Rejects and House of a 1000 Corpses, is the only actor to have been cast so far.

The film was previously rebooted in 2003 starring Jessica Biel, who later described the filming process as one of the hardest experiences of her life.

Dimension Films are scheduled to release their 3D reboot of the Halloween franchise only three weeks later.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D is due out in cinemas on October 5, 2012.

Steven Spielberg I'm an old school director

Steven Spielberg has accepted that he is an "old-fashioned" director.

The Jurassic Park helmer explained that although he is impressed by modern technologies, he still harbours a sense of nostalgia for the "homemade" productions of yesteryear.

"All kids have to do these days is take their cellphone, flip it open and make a movie, but I like the way it started," he noted to Empire.

"It wasn't a point-and-click art form, it was a craft. It involved solvents, photo-chemistry, cutting out poster board with industrial scissors and getting your fingers fused with Elmer's glue.

"It was all homemade stuff. If I was a chef, a microwave would be my worst enemy. I would want to do it the old-fashioned way."

Recalling where he first developed a passion for movie-making, Spielberg added: "My dad used to film our camping trips. He'd put the camera outside the window as we were driving along, and all you'd see was a blurring, brown motion of the Arizona desert streaking past. It got to the point where I begged him to be the videographer."

Spielberg serves as producer of J.J. Abrams's secretive picture Super 8, which sees a group of children witness the arrival of an monstrous being while filming a home movie in their small town.

Spielberg's next movies as a director will be The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which is released in the UK on October 26 and in the US on December 23, and War Horse, which hits US cinemas on December 28 and the UK on January 13, 2012.