In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Some film school graduates wait years before they see their work on the big screen. Others aren’t as lucky and soon leave the profession (or become critics). And then there’s Gil Kenan – a 29-year-old UCLA film school grad who got hired by movie heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis to direct his first full-length film.
Kenan had just one credit to his name: “The Lark,” a 10-minute film he shot for $400, which he used as his senior thesis and finished the day before it was due.
After a screening of the “The Lark” at his school’s film festival in 2002, he was immediately signed to the CAA talent agency. Shortly after, Spielberg and Zemeckis hired him to direct their action-animation “Monster House,” in theatres Friday.
“This whole thing is such a fantasy,” Kenan told andPOP during a recent promotional visit to Toronto. “I was convinced that I would continue making films in my kitchen. I was evicted three times while I was starting to work on this because it took so long to get this movie into gear.”
“Monster House” begins the day before Halloween, when DJ (Mitchel Musso) notices something unusual about the house across the street. The house’s owner, the grumpy Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi), collapses and DJ thinks he’s responsible for his death. But with Nebbercracker gone, the house takes on a life of its own. With his best friend, Chowder (Sam Lerner) and a girl they rescue and become infatuated with, Jenny (Spencer Locke), DJ tries to save his neighbourhood from the haunted house that has tortured them for so long.
While the film is animated, it is still frightening. But Kenan said kids deserve more credit and can handle a little bit of fear. He compares the experience of watching “Monster House” to an amusement park ride.
“Kids are geniuses and are really brave,” he said. “Sure, 3 and 4-year-olds might be too scared by this, but I think a 7-year-old kid will be right there with you. They have so much aptitude that we don’t tap into.”
Watching “Monster House,” audiences may be so enraptured by it that they will forget the film is animated. This can be attributed to two reasons.
First, the film was shot using a method called performance capture, pioneered by Zemeckis in 2004′s “The Polar Express.” Actors wear body suits and their movements are digitally captured and transformed into animation.
Second, Kenan approached the film as if he were creating live-action. Dan McLaughlin, the head of animation at UCLA, taught his class to ask themselves, “but can this be done in live-action?”
“I always carried that with me every day on the film. I didn’t see this as directing animation; just directing,” said Kenan, who moved to Southern California from Israel at age 7.
One of his first tasks in directing “Monster House” was the casting process. For the role of the three kids, he auditioned hundreds to find three that had believable chemistry (Musso, Lerner and Locke).
Casting the other parts, he lucked out.
“I came up with a wish list,” he said. “I wrote down, very naively, all the actors who I thought would suit each character and somehow I ended up with all of those actors, which is still a mystery to me.”
The all-star cast includes Kathleen Turner, Jason Lee, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Nick Cannon, Catherine O’Hara, Fred Willard, Jason Lee and Kevin James.
And as for the intimidating production team of Spielberg and Zemeckis, Kenan – who will next direct the big-screen adaptation of the apocalyptic novel “The City of Ember” – called their working relationship “perfect.”
“They were great mentors to me. When I needed them, they were there. When it was time to make my movie, they left me alone to do it.”
