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.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END has smashed the record for the biggest worldwide opening in history – the movie raked in a massive $401 million in its first six days of release.
The second sequel in the Walt Disney-made series has already broken box office records in the U.S. for the best Memorial Day weekend debut, after making $142.1 million.
At World’s End beat the previous record for best opening set by the release of Spider-Man 3 earlier this year, which made a total of $382 million in its first few days.
Walt Disney Studios spokesman Mark Zoradi says, “We knew that audiences all over the world were excited to see Johnny Depp and the rest of the fantastic Pirates cast in this latest adventure, but this record-setting response at the global box office has been nothing short of incredible.
“Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End now has the biggest opening in movie history, and we’re extremely proud of that achievement.”
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New PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN sequel, AT WORLD’S END, appears to have fallen short of reclaiming its place in the U.S. box office record books – but JOHNNY DEPP and his crew are still celebrating.
The second sequel has scored an estimated $112.5 million in its opening weekend, although official figures won’t be released until after Memorial Day.
The figure, though impressive, is well below last summer’s $135.6 million opening weekend take for Pirates sequel Dead Man’s Chest.
And it’s way short of Spider-Man 3′s record-breaking $151.1 million opening weekend earlier this month.
But the Pirates won’t exactly be walking the plank – At World’sEnd scored the fifth-biggest three-day opening ever.
The film has also made an additional $205.5 million internationally since it hit cinemas worldwide on Wednesday.
The sequel easily tops the new U.S. box office chart, which is led by the third films in three franchises.
Shrek The Third comes in second with an impressive $51 million second-weekend take, while Spider-Man 3 holds on to third place with $13.7 million.
The third Spider-Man film has now notched up $303.3 million in America alone – in just a month. The movie’s worldwide figure has already topped $800 million.
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Movie mogul JERRY BRUCKHEIMER is planning further PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN sequels, although they may not star JOHNNY DEPP.
The third film in the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, At World’s End, is released later this month, and Bruckheimer is already considering the idea of spin-off movies.
He tells Australian newspaper The Herald Sun, “This is the end (of the trilogy), but whether one of the characters or a couple of the characters continue on, it’s a possibility.
“Certainly, in a moment at the end of the film there is a hope that something else might happen”.
Pirates Of The Caribbean regular Geoffrey Rush believes another sequel is likely, although they might not necessarily star Depp.
He adds, “Inevitably they may think about it, but Johnny may say, ‘Pah, I’ve burnt out Jack. I couldn’t go there again.’ Or he may not.
“I certainly know he wouldn’t say ‘Hey, treble my fee and I’ll do it.’”
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If I had to sum up Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man?s Chest in a single phrase, it would be ?action overload.? It gives us plenty of Johnny Depp?s iconic Jack Sparrow, and Keira Knightley?s Elizabeth Swann a sword (though first she has to be rescued ? yay Hollywood non-feminism), and Orlando Bloom?s Will Turner more opportunities to act faultlessly heroic; brings back those two bumbling pirates; adds Bill Nighy as a memorable tentacle-faced, organ (as in the instrument)-pounding villain; and includes plenty of swashbuckling, redcoats, double-crosses, voodoo magic, savage natives, and even a kraken.
But as you might gather from that list, it gets to be a bit much at times.
It?s all undeniably exciting and inventive, and it?s difficult to imagine fans of the original being disappointed, but (especially near the beginning and in parts of the last third) it keeps ratcheting up the stakes so much that it becomes hard to care anymore.
Consider an early scene where Will and company are tied up by the aforementioned natives in two nets inside a deep chasm over some jagged rocks. Too conventional? Let?s say the nets are made out of their former comrade?s bones, and Jack?s the next meal the natives are planning to cook. Still not enough? How about the folks in Will?s net are loyal to Jack, while the folks in the other net plan to cause a mutiny? So Will and company have to escape from the natives and from each other, and save Jack in the process.
I should probably note this early sequence has nothing to do with anything that comes later. The natives are funny, and in an interesting piece of equal-opportunity decision-making, a multiethnic group of extras were all painted the same (dark) colour, but it?s a little too… much in the end, with the narrative unclear about who (besides Will and Jack), why, or what we should care about.
The story starts out with a bang: Will and Elizabeth are captured by the new governor of the first movie?s Port Royal (played by one Tom Hollander), a representative of the East India company. He immediately arrests Will and Elizabeth for aiding Jack Sparrow and ousts Elizabeth?s father from his former position. However, it turns out Jack stole a magic compass from him, and since he wants the compass back he agrees to set Will free to go find it ? otherwise Elizabeth will hang from the gallows. Fast forward past that pointless natives pileup, the monkey from the first movie, and some voodoo magic, and the movie picks up again when Nighy (or at least, a squid-like creature that sounds like Nighy putting on a Scottish accent)?s villainous Davy Jones enters the picture. He wants to collect a payment from Jack ? his soul ? and Jack is only willing to give Will the compass if he helps Jack bargain for his soul.
Like the original, Dead Man?s Chest is long and unwieldy, but it?s (mostly) carried along by a sure-footed story and an infectious sense of fun. A refresher in the original will be necessary for those who remember little more than Johnny Depp, and that Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley were in it but that their characters were boring. In addition to those three, plus Hollander, Nighy, and the two bumbling pirates, Pintel and Ragetti (Lee Arenberg and the British version of The Office?s Mackenzie Crook), there?s Commodore Norrington (Jack Davenport) whom I had completely forgotten about but whom my brother said played a major role in the first one and has an equally large role in this one, ?Bootstrap Bill? Turner, Will?s father, mentioned plenty in the first one and played here by Stellan Skarsg?rd, Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), the voodoo lady, Gibbs (Kevin McNally), Jack?s right hand man, and a couple of other crewmembers I hadn?t remembered, including a silent man with a parrot. The only character who doesn?t show up is the one obscure castmember I remembered, Anamaria (Zoe Saldana), who kept slapping Jack?s face in the first one.
The film is undeniably entertaining. There?s lots of little touches, like Jones using his face tentacles to play the organ and Pintel and Ragetti arguing over whether ?kraken? is pronounced ?crake-in? or ?crack-in.? There?s a terrific scene where three combatants, faced with Jones? crew, have to keep passing two swords between each other. The special effects are outstanding, and believe me, you?ve never seen a giant squid attack like this one. And yet, at times it feels like that sense of fun is missing somehow, and as if more special effects are the only way director Gore Verbinski knows how to compensate. The very end of the movie balances not one, not two, but three final battles, before recovering its bearings and setting up for the sequel. There?s a weak stab at a love triangle, and not nearly as much for Captain Jack to do this time around.
The film is also gruesome. When posing as leader of the savages (don?t ask), Jack?s necklace isn?t merely decorated with bones, but severed fingers. An early scene has a raven plucking a man?s eye out. A clothed leg is used as an oar. Bootstrap Bill?s face has been eaten away by the sea, and closeups of the polyps growing on it, not to mention the kraken?s suction cups, were enough to make even the (mostly grown-up) audience I was seeing it with gag. Don?t be fooled by the new Walt Disney logo: several parts of this push the very upper boundaries of good taste and the PG-13 rating.
So, is it good? It certainly delivers what it promises: Jack Sparrow, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and what feels like every high seas situation your mind can dream of. But it doesn?t keep as tight a handle on its narrative, and at times it loses track of what made the first one unexpectedly work.
3.5*
