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HollywoodNews.com: Now that Eva Longoria has confirmed that she is dating New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, everyone wants all the details about their budding romance.
Longoria recently spoke with Chelsea Handler about the relationship that hasn’t been going on for that long, states RadarOnline. “He’s great … [we've been dating] for a second … he’s focused right now on football,” Longoria commented.
Since confirming the romance, the two have been spotted out together holding hands after grabbing dinner.
Longoria was previously dating Penelope Cruz’s brother, Eduardo Cruz.
Do you like her with Sanchez?
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By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Steven Spielberg and Joseph Gordon Levitt introduced the first full trailer for the director’s highly anticipated “Lincoln” during a unique Google+ event in New York City.
The full clip gives us an excellent view of Daniel Day-Lewis as our nation’s 16tht president, who is grappling with his administrators during the closing moments of the Civil War (and, as it turns out, his last few weeks on this Earth).
Sight unseen, it’s widely believed that Spielberg’s “Lincoln” will be an Oscar player. It certainly has the awards pedigree. Spielberg, an Oscar winner, has been recognized when he study’s humanity’s history in films such as “Munich,” “Saving Private Ryan” and “Schindler’s List.” And his cast is littered with Oscar winners (as the trailer) points out: Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, etc.
The constant fade-in-fade-out of this new trailer gives me a headache. I’d prefer one long shot, instead of 100 snapshots. But from what we can see, “Lincoln” delivers stunning historical production values and an as-expected mesmerizing performance by Day-Lewis. His voice is so modestly pitched – as Lincoln’s was rumored to be – that you almost don’t recognize him. Is it too soon to call his Best Actor nomination a lock?
“Lincoln” opens in limited release on Nov. 9, before expanding on Nov. 16. Here’s the trailer. Share your thoughts below:

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By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The Venice and Toronto film festivals put feathers in their caps by being able to program Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly-anticipated “The Master” into their fall events. But knowing PTA – and his adoration for true cinema fans – he had something special up his sleeve, which was revealed Friday night in Santa Monica.
Anderson screened his film, in full, following a retrospective screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” at the American Cinematheque in Southern California. Patrons attending the screening were told that there would be a second movie screening after the Kubrick classic, according to HitFix, but they had no idea it would be PTA’s drama until it screened.
The AC screening allowed Anderson (who attended with his wife, Maya Rudolph) to screen “The Master” in his preferred format, 70mm. This near-insistence is causing headaches with exhibitors as the film prepares its fall theatrical release. But the film will be opening in limited release on Sept. 14, with a strong push from The Weinstein Company, before it continues to expand.
You have to love PT Anderson for surprising fans at a legitimate cinematic event, taking a little wind out of the sails of the prestigious film festivals but paying tribute to the people he makes movies for … the audience.
It’s not going to stop us from covering the daylights out of “The Master” when it screens in Toronto in September. Stay tuned for our reports on Anderson’s movie, and its trot through the Oscar marathon.
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by Terence Johnson
HollywoodNews.com: Hot on the heels of the Toronto International Film Festival announcing their titles comes word from Venice about the films to be featured at the 69th Venice Film Festival.
With 60 films, the selection includes a wide range of anticipated titles such as Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder, Passion from Brian De Palma and The Company You Keep directed by Robert Redford, as well as 20 films from female directors. Surprisingly, Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is not included in the lineup, might this mean it will be skipping the festivals? Check out the full list after the jump!
Competition Films
Something in the Air, Olivier Assayas (France)
Outrage: Beyond, Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
Fill The Void, Rama Burshtein (Israel)
To the Wonder, Terrence Malick (U.S.)
Pieta, Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)
Dormant Beauty, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
E’ stato il figlio, Daniele Cipri (Italy)
At Any Price, Ramin Bahrani (U.S., U.K.)
La cinquieme saison, Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (Belgium, Netherlands, France)
Un giorno speciale, Francesca Comencini (Italy)
Passion, Brian De Palma (France, Germany)
Superstar, Xavier Giannoli (France, Belgium)
Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine (U.S.)
Thy Womb, Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
Linhas de Wellington, Valeria Sarmiento (Portugal, France)
Paradise: Faith, Ulrich Seidl (Austria, France, Germany)
Betrayal, Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
Out of Competition Films
L’homme qui rit, Jean-Pierre Ameris (France) *closing film*
Love Is All You Need, Susanne Bier (Denmark, Sweden)
Cherchez Hortense, Pascal Bonitzer (France)
Sur un fil, Simon Brook (France, Italy)
Enzo Avitabile Music Life, Jonathan Demme (Italy, U.S.)
Tai Chi 0, Stephen Fung (China)
Lullaby to My Father, Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
Shokuzai (Penance), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
Bad 25, Spike Lee (U.S.)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mira Nair (India, Pakistan, U.S.) *opening film*
O Gebo e a Sombra, Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal, France)
The Company You Keep, Robert Redford (U.S.)
Shark (Bait 3D), Kimble Rendall (Australia, China, Singapore)
Disconnect, Henry-Alex Rubin (U.S.)
The Iceman, Ariel Vromen (U.S.)
Horizons Sidebar
Wadjda, Haifaa Al Mansour (Germany)
Khanéh Pedari (The Paternal House), Kianoosh Ayari (Iran)
Ja Tozhe Hochu (I Also Want It), Alexey Balabanov (Russia)
Gli equilibristi, Ivano De Matteo (Italy)
L’intervallo, Leonardo Di Costanzo (Italy, Switzerland, Germany)
El Sheita Elli Fat (Winter of Discontent), Ibrahim El Batout (Egypt)
Tango Libre, Frédéric Fonteyne (Belgium, France, Luxembourg)
Menatek Ha-Maim (The Cutoff Man), Idan Hubel (Israel)
Gaosu tamen, wo cheng baihe qu le (Fly with the Crane), Li Ruijun (China)
Kapringen (A Hijacking), Tobias Lindholm (Denmark)
Leones, Jazmin Lopez (Argentina, France, Netherlands)
Bellas Mariposas, Salvatore Mereu (Italy)
Low Tide, Roberto Minervini (U.S., Italy, Belgium)
Boxing Day, Bernard Rose (U.K., U.S.)
Yema, Djamila Sahraoui (Algeria, France)
Araf (Araf – Somewhere in Between), Yesim Ustaoglu (Turkey, France, Germany)
Sennen no Yuraku (The Millennial Rapture), Koji Wakamatsu (Japan)
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HollywoodNews.com: Jenny McCarthy will be on the cover of ‘Playboy’ for the July/August issue, and now she is leaking some details about what fans can expect.
The star, who is turning 40, spoke with the ‘Today’ show about all that fans will see of her, states People. McCarthy was asked if she will be baring all to which she explained what will be shown.
“I mean I grew out a bush so nobody sees anything,” McCarthy commented.
But when it came to why she was doing the shoot, McCarthy kept up with her jokes: “I figured [I'd do it] one more time before everything really falls apart. Why not? And [my son] Evan’s tuition was really expensive this year.”
Will you check out her issue?
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By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire” ensemble is a veritable who’s who of Oscar winners, Hollywood icons, red-hot contemporary stars of the silver screen and … Gina Carano?
OK, so you might not be familiar with Carano just yet. But once you realize that she stomps into “Haywire” and absolutely steals it away from the likes of Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender and Channing Tatum, you’re going to sit forward and start to pay attention. Ms. Carano commands that level of respect and, in time, we believe she’ll earn what’s coming to her. Even if she has to physically take down every single person in Hollywood. One. Man. At. A. Time.
Carano couldn’t have been nicer during a recent conversation, though, about unique “Haywire” training, the fighting styles of her male co-stars, and her desire to be the next James Bond. Here’s Gina Carano:
HollywoodNews.com: I just saw the film this morning.
Gina Carano: Oh, just this morning?
HollywoodNews.com: I did.
It’s so funny, because they keep screening it for different people at different times, no one’s going to be left to go buy a ticket. [Laughs]
HollywoodNews.com: Believe me, I’m going to tell a lot of people to go buy a ticket. The thing that struck me about “Haywire” is just how possible, how grounded, and how realistic all of the action is. I call it the anti-“Salt.” How much did you discuss with your director not going too far and keeping people rooted in reality?
Well, that is all Steven Soderbergh’s plan. He is authentic and real. He told me that he wanted this story to come across as something that could happen, and that people could believe in. It’s really nice to have a man with a great vision. And there really has been a great response from people who say they find it very realistic.
HollywoodNews.com: I think it was during the rooftop chase in Dublin, which does take a long time, that I finally stopped and thought, “Well, yeah, it would actually take this person this long to get away from that many people.”
And do you know what’s so funny is that he actually cut that scene down a lot. He just enjoyed watching me run, I guess. [Laughs] But the studio told him, “It’s a little long.” So that was actually cut back tremendously.
HollywoodNews.com: On the DVD, I want to see the entire sequence.
We’re actually going to [...]

By Scott Mendelson
HollywoodNews.com:This is the third of several year-end wrap essays detailing the year in film. This time, it’s about highlighting the good or great films that slipped under the radar somehow. Some got rave reviews and wide releases but stiffed at the box office while some never made it out of limited release. All are worth tracking down and all are, with one exception I will point out, now available on DVD/Blu Ray/download/etc. And nearly all of them are not hardcore independent films, but seemingly mainstream dramas and comedies that would have likely merited a wide release even a few years ago. Once again, these will be in alphabetical order.
13 Assassins
Like pretty much all Magnolia titles in the last few years, the majority of the film’s initial profits came from their OnDemand services, with Takashi Miike’s truly epic samurai drama receiving on a token theatrical release in a few major cities. No matter where you see this one, it’s a surprisingly compelling shades-of-grey morality play. At its core, it’s about the morality of committing murder, political assassination no-less, in the name of dispatching a regional ruler who may be too evil to eventually wear the crown. For the first two thirds it is a character study and a classic samurai drama. But the entire last third of the picture unleashes one of the longest and most impressive non-stop action sequences I’ve ever seen. If for no other reason than it’s last 40 minutes, 13 Assassins is a must-see action picture.
Attack the Block
If you read any blogs that travel in the ‘geek circles’, this may be the most talked-about movie that nobody saw this year. The film premiered early in the year to rave reviews from the Faracis and McWeenys of the world, but it’s token limited release from Sony Screen Gems on July 29th, a weekend with six new releases. Needless to say, it died and never really expanded. Is the film as gloriously awesome as you may have read elsewhere? Not quite. It doesn’t break much new ground, but it does what it intends to do very well. The young kids are all quite good and the aliens they encounter are all the scarier for their sparse use. This is just a rock-solid genre entry that is just different enough to [...]

By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: Virtually every critic under the sun had something to say over David Denby’s illogical shattering of a press embargo set for David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” as well as producer Scott Rudin’s measured slap-down of Denby’s selfish actions.
But one voice not yet heard in the matter is “Dragon Tattoo” director David Fincher, who addressed the situation during an interview with Rene Rodriguez, chief film critic for the Miami Herald.
Here’s Fincher’s take on Rudin’s reponse to the embargo smashing:
“I think Scott [Rudin]‘s response was totally correct. It’s a hard thing for people outside our business to understand. It is a bit of a tempest in a teapot. But as silly as this may all look from the outside – privileged people bickering – I think it’s important. Film critics are part of the business of getting movies made. You swim in the same water we swim in. And there is a business to letting people know your movie is coming out. It is not a charity business. It is a business-business.
“This is not about controlling the media. If people realized how much thought goes into deciding at what point can we allow our movie to be seen, they would understand. There are so many other things constantly screaming for people’s attention. I started shooting this movie 25 days after I turned in The Social Network. We have been working really hard to make this release date. And when you’re trying to orchestrate a build-up of anticipation, it is extremely frustrating to have someone agree to something and then upturn the apple cart and change the rules – for everybody.
“Embargoes … look, if it were up to me, I wouldn’t show movies to anybody before they were released. I wouldn’t give clips to talk shows. I would do one trailer and three television spots and let the chips fall where they may. That’s how far in the other direction I am. If I had my way, the New York Film Critics Circle would not have seen this movie and then we would not be in this situation. I would be opening this movie on Wednesday Dec. 21 and I would have three screenings on Tuesday Dec. 20 and that would be it.
“That’s where [Rudin] and I get into some of our biggest fights. My whole thing is, ‘If people want to come, they’ll come.’ But [...]

By Sean O’Connell
hollywoodnews.com: Reading stories this morning of the NYPD’s efforts to extinguish the Occupy Wall Street movement in downtown Manhattan, my mind turned to the ladies of “The Help.” The messages of the OWS movement might not be as unified as organizers hoped, and the causes have fractured to include too many personal agendas over the last few weeks. But the one thing that never wavered was the desire of the protestors to have their voices be heard.
Reflecting on the grassroots sit-in, which started in New York and spread across the country, I thought of Octavia Spencer’s character, Minny Jackson, who wanted little else than the basic human right to use a toilet. I thought of Emma Stone’s Skeeter, a person sitting in a position of power who heard the requests of the minority and decided to take the difficult road by doing something about the injustice. Skeeter’s hardly the 1%. But Stone, director Tate Taylor and novelist Kathryn Stockett made her something far more important than that. They made her a decent human being.
Can the Occupy Wall Street movement help “The Help” during this Oscar season? It’s possible. The film has what it takes from a critical and commercial standpoint to get into the race. And based on today’s actions in New York City, I’d argue it has the cultural relevance to make some noise in the ongoing awards marathon.
Taylor told me he never intended his film to be a Civil Rights picture. But “The Help” does shine a light on a period in our history where the culture was imbalanced, and a few people on one side of the equation risked a lot to tilt things back toward the center.
According to a recent poll on Gold Derby, the frontrunners for Best Picture currently are Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants” and Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist.” Two worthy films. But step back for a minute. Payne’s film, in part, centers on a Hawaiian landowner (George Clooney) wrestling with a million-dollar property deal. And “The Artist,” while excellent, tells the story of a top-of-the-world silent film star (Jean Dujardin) who might have to move out of his palatial Hollywood mansion and stop dining in Los Angeles’ finest restaurants because the “talkies” are squeezing him out.
Can you relate? Can Academy members? When it comes time to vote. Films are going to need No. 1 votes from Academy [...]

By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: We’re witnessing a refreshing swing back to old-fashioned, mano-a-mano action in the film industry.
Brad Bird’s “Mission: Impossible” sequel appears to shift back to organic stunt work, with Tom Cruise dangling from the side of the world’s tallest skyscraper. Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire” has been grabbing the majority of the headlines out of AFI Fest. And today, an international trailer has hit for Mark Wahlberg’s January release “Contraband,” and I think it’s going to fall in line with the hard-hitting action we’ve recently enjoyed seeing.
We have it below.
In the film, Wahlberg plays a former crook who’s been out of the “life” for years. He gets pulled back into the dirty biz – surprise, surprise – so he can defend a family member who falls in with some bad dudes. Wahlberg’s cut from this cloth, and is ideal for the role. Kate Beckinsale co-stars as his luscious wife, while Giovanni Ribisi (always welcome) pops by as what appears to be Wahlberg’s rival.
But it’s the stunts that catch my eye in this new clip. Check it out. It looks solid.
“Contraband” will be in theaters on Jan. 13, 2012. What do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6wbA7STNA
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