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.
The stars come out to play for Versace for H&M!
The fashion line’s launch party, held last night in New York City, was crawling with the likes of Jessica Alba, Chace Crawford, Jennifer Hudson, Emma Robers, Nicki Minaj and Blake Lively just to name a few. Attendees were even braced with the glowing presence of Donatella Versace herself.
“I had an ammmazzinnng night! #DonatellaVersace and soo many people was great seeing @RobertsEmma and @jessicaalba :)…” tweeted atress Chloe Moretz. She was more star stuck over the “Super Bass” rapper tweeting, “Meeting @NICKIMINAJ was amazing :O I love her and her performance was to die for :O 
” Someone’s sure happy!
Minaj took time to tweet after following her and Prince’s performances, tweeting, “Prince just shut new york city DOWNNNN. WoW. Shouted me out while he was on stage and errrthang gworl!!!! #groupietweet“
Even Emma Roberts got in on the twitter-action, posting, “Sitting next to the handsome @zacharyquinto at Versace for H&M. Lucky me!”
So who was the best dressed of the night? Drum roll please…
Jessica Alba sparkled in a black studded matching Versace for H&M top-and-skirt outfit.
Blake Lively glowed in a strapless white and black Versace dress and blazer.
Chloe Moretz shined in a bright yellow studded Versace for H&M dress.
Emma Roberts looked fierce sporting a floral Versace for H&M bustier and matching pants.
Chace Crawford looked sharp in a black suit and scarf.
Check out more photos of the fashion event here.
After fifteen years, two sequels, and the Stab mise-en-abime franchise-within-a franchise, Ghostface has finally made his grand return to the screen, and there is no guessing what his favorite scary movie is.
Scream 4 is a half-shallow stab at a hyperrealist, postmodern slasher film. Though it’s clear that the film is just “too meta” for words, it is overly reliant on its genre clichés that were already too heavily ensconced throughout the franchise.
The naïve victim for eternity, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) returns to the small American town of Woodsboro on the 15th anniversary of the first murders to promote her new novel, which is ironically about overcoming victimization. Of course, once news hits the town of her arrival, so too does a new string of gruesome murders, which closely mimics the pattern of the initial killing spree. SO META right?
Retired journalist Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) is quick to jump on the story despite the stern warnings of her wimpy husband Dewey (David Arquette), who is now the sheriff of Woodsboro. Gale teams up with the young cinephiles of the local high school cinema club in an attempt to dismantle the “rules” of the new Ghostface. Gale and the cinema society still cannot outsmart Ghostface even when utilizing advanced technology such as personal headset cameras and video blogs. Undoubtedly the peeping Tom tactics are reversed and the camera is turned on Gale and the students. Yes, Gale, killers are also up to date with modern technology.
Like Scream 3, the backbone of the film is a set of complex rules, however in this case the rules are cleverly subverted as a way to return full cycle to the first set of murders. The murder scheme is familiar as victims run UP the stairs, into basements, empty parking garages, drunken parties, and basically straight into the killers knife.
The same assortment of precocious yet misinformed teenagers are played by the popular young Hollywood stars, Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts, and Rory Culkin, who are all surprisingly good. The teens are far more exciting to watch than the still idiotic survivors of the previous attacks, Dewey, Sidney, and Gale.
The tropes and ploys are mostly for comic effect, and you will laugh probably more than you will cringe. The gore is far from the torture porn variety save for a prompt glimpse of a bloody intestine, and a final scene that can only be described as excessive.
The film is fast paced and the ending will be surprising for some, yet predictable for others who are keen on deconstructing the rules of the slasher genre within the frame of the film. Don’t be fooled, the self-reflexivity is tiresome and overdone. Wes Craven’s mark is visible, but it seems he too is getting tired of trying to play the Derrida of horror films.
However, the film is saved by its cameos, featuring Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell, and the starring role of Roberts who outshines her days of starring on “Unfabulous” and replaces them with an unforgettable performance.
Neil Patrick Harris, who has been in the spotlight for nearly his entire life, is set to make his directorial debut reports Hollywood Reporter. Harris will direct the indie romance Aaron and Sarah.
Harris has become extremely popular in the last few years for his role on “How I Met Your Mother”. Harris directed one of the show’s episodes in 2010, but is he ready to make the jump from the small screen to the silver screen?
Aaron and Sarah will star Emma Roberts (It’s Kind of a Funny Story) and Josh Hutcherson (The Kids are All Right) as two high schoolers, a popular girl and a geek, who happen to cross paths and fall in love. It seems like a familiar story but hopefully Harris will throw something interesting into the mix. Apparently the film includes “four proms and a funeral”.
Judging by the recent films of Roberts and Hutcherson, the film will be a quirky poignant high school tale that covers comedy and drama while making obscure pop culture references.
The art of producing a comedy-drama is a delicate one. Tell too many jokes and you run the risk of your message getting lost. Go too serious and the audience may feel bogged down in the story or worse, ripped off by your lack of gag material. There’s a fine line filmmakers have to walk in order to achieve success in this hybrid genre, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to make a winner. “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” opening October 8th in Toronto and October 15th nationwide, walks the razor thin tightrope with the unshakable balance of past genre stars. It may be a little early to call it a sealed deal, but the film based on Ned Vizzini’s popular novel of the same name is most definitely in the running to become this year’s Little Miss Sunshine or Juno equivalent.
The film tells the story of sixteen-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist), an imaginative overachiever who’s struggling under the pressures from his family and academic career. After experiencing a particularly vivid suicidal fantasy, Craig decides to check himself into a mental health clinic. Shortly after he’s admitted, Craig finds out that due to ongoing hospital renovations the youth ward has been temporarily closed – meaning that he’ll be spending his 5-day stay intermingling with both teen and adult patients. The situation is daunting for Craig until he meets Bobby (Zach Galifianakis), a 36-year-old fellow patient who decides to mentor Craig through his stay. Craig also bonds with Noelle (Emma Roberts), a suicidal teen with an affinity for Radiohead and line drawings. With the help of Noelle, Bobby, and the rest of the ward, Craig reprioritizes his life and discovers that beauty and happiness can be found in the most unexpected of places as long as you’re brave enough to go looking for it.
“I feel 14,” says Emma Roberts, “I think.”
When I ask Roberts how old she feels, she takes a few seconds to contemplate her answer. Sure, she is 14, but most 14-year-olds don’t star in a hit sitcom (Nickelodeon’s “Unfabulous”), don’t have an album in stores (the show’s soundtrack) and aren’t preparing for a blockbuster movie (she’ll soon be portraying Nancy Drew).
Roberts is on the verge of becoming the next teen queen — that young personality who every person under 16 knows, and who everyone else will soon discover (see: Britney Spears, Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan).
She feels 14, but she realizes she’s different.
“A couple years ago, I was just a normal kid and I looked up to all those people and now people are looking up to me,” Roberts tells andPOP.
“I hope I’d be good at [being a teen queen], but I would like that.”
Oh, and there’s another big difference between the 14-year-olds you know and Ms Roberts: she has an aunt you may have heard of. Her name is Julia Roberts, you know who I’m talking about?
Roberts ? the young one, that is ? realizes that in every interview, her aunt’s name will come up.
“Sometimes it’s kind of difficult because you want to be doing your own thing and you’re always asked about that but it’s one of those things you just get used to,” she says, speaking from her home in Los Angeles.
She’s also beginning to realize that perhaps being her niece may help her stand out from the dozen other young celebrities trying to conquer the entertainment scene. But while it may help her at first, she knows that it won’t keep people interested for very long unless she has real talent.
“Obviously my name attracts attention for people to say, ‘oh that’s Julia Roberts’ niece.’ But I think you have to have some power in your personality to keep yourself looked at.”
That powerful personality is a much-needed commodity in Hollywood, where the weak sink fast. Roberts is adapting quickly.
“A lot of people make up stuff about you that isn’t true,” she says. “You hope that people believe the good things that are true and not the rumours that people make up. I’ve heard some crazy rumours like I have a Ferrari and just some stuff about like, ‘oh she’s probably spoiled because she’s Julia Roberts’ niece,’ blah blah blah, and all that kind of stuff that’s so not true.”
And the press can be just as nasty.
Something that may sound so innocent can be spun in a way that may make someone look bad; like the time that Roberts said she’d love to work with Reese Witherspoon. One publication interpreted that quote to mean, “Emma Roberts has snubbed her aunt Julia Roberts by declaring Reese Witherspoon her favourite actress.”
It’s something that could make people second-guess every word that comes out of their mouths. For Roberts, it’s something she just accepts as being part of the business.
“Whatever you do, they will put it in a different way. So you just say the truth and hope it comes out right.”
Next up for Roberts is the movie “Aquamarine,” scheduled for release in April, in which she co-stars with singer JoJo.
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Favourite movie: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. “I love that movie. I watched it last night.” Favourite Artist: The Veronicas. Favourite Song: Tangled Up in Me by Skye Sweetnam Must-have accessory: “My Tiffany heart ring.” People would be most surprised to learn that: “I really like to draw. Just faces, people. I’m not very good but I just like to do it.” |
Next year, she’ll also start shooting “Nancy Drew: The Mystery in Hollywood Hills.” Roberts will star as Nancy Drew in the big-screen adaptation of the popular mystery novels. If all goes well, it could turn into a series of films that could rival “Harry Potter” for popularity.
In the meantime, Roberts is still shooting episodes for “Unfabulous” and is busy promoting the late September release of “Unfabulous and More,” the CD which features her singing on 10 tracks.
“I just started [singing] because I sing on the show. We put out a soundtrack because we thought it would be a fun thing to do.”
The biggest difference between singing and acting, Roberts finds, is where she has to look.
“I did two music videos and it was so weird because they taught me to look right into the camera. And that was always weird for me because in acting, they’re always saying ‘don’t look right into the lenses’.”
And like a true teen queen, she’s not sure what she’s going to be doing in the near future.
“I see myself in front of the camera and also I want to have a fashion line so I probably see myself doing that,” Roberts says. “Maybe when I’m older I’ll do singing too. Or maybe I’ll do all three!”
