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maandag 1 augustus 2011

The Kings of Leon U.S. Tour: Canceled!

Caleb Followill is currently battling vocal issues and exhaustion. As such, The Kings of Leon are pulling the plug on the rest of their U.S. tour. A rep for the rock band released a statement saying: "We are sorry to say that Kings of Leon are canceling their entire US tour due to Caleb Followill suffering from vocal issues and exhaustion." Followill's woes were highlighted when the lead singer walked off the stage in Dallas, Texas, saying he was "going to go backstage for a second, going to vomit, going to drink a beer, and going to come back out and play three more songs." Caleb did not return, which is when things grew tense between his brothers / band mates. Soon after, the group announced its aforementioned hiatus. "The band is devastated, but in order to give their fans the shows they deserve, they need to take this break. Unfortunately, the U.S. dates cannot be rescheduled due to international tour dates on the band's schedule." Tickets will be refunded, at least, and the band will resume touring in Canada on September 28. Here's wishing Caleb a speedy return to health. Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/08/kings-of-leon-us-tour-canceled/Amber Heard

'Smurfs' Cast Imagines Navigating NYC -- In Miniature

'I've always been fascinated by what really goes on in the subways,' Neil Patrick Harris tells MTV News of what he'd do first.By Jocelyn Vena "The Smurfs (In 3-D)" Photo: Sony Pictures "The Smurfs" are three apples high, as the legend goes, and in this week's big-screen adaptation of the beloved children's cartoon, Hollywood takes a stab at re-telling the tale for a new generation of kids. The 3-D tale (with some CGI) is voiced by an A-list cast, including VMA-nominated Katy Perry, George Lopez and Alan Cumming, to name a few. In the movie, the Smurfs land in the Big Apple, where they end up staying with expecting newlyweds played by Neil Patrick Harris and "Glee" star Jayma Mays. Of course, they're also trying to stay as far as possible from their nemesis, Gargamel, played by Hank Azaria. The little creatures find themselves in some silly situations as they try to navigate the big city. When MTV News caught up with Harris, Mays and Azaria in New York, we asked what they would do if they suddenly found themselves having to survive the city in Smurf-sized bodies.' "I've always been fascinated by what really goes on in the subways," Harris said. His onscreen lady love, Mays, agreed, "That's a good one," before warning him, "but then the rats would be bigger than you. So that'd be a little scary." "Maybe I'd sneak into really fun buildings," Mays added. "I would get into clubs that won't let me in now." Harris later quipped of a popular Broadway show, "You could sneak into the 'Book of Mormon.' That's a hard ticket to get right now." The actor who plays the movie's bumbling bad guy had a less glitzy answer. "If I were three apples high and I lived in New York, I would sneak into the Mets game. That's what I'd do," Azaria said. "And I'm blue, so they'd probably just mistake me for some kind of mascot. I'd wear orange to go with it. You see Gutsy's beard there? It's orange; that's Mets colors right there. I'm sure Gutsy is a Mets fan." Are you going to check out "The Smurfs" this weekend? Tell us in the comments! Check out everything we've got on "The Smurfs." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1668131/smurfs-movie-cast-miniatures.jhtmlCindy Crawford

Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt Are Broke!

Well isn?t karma a biotch! It looks like famewhores Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are broke and that isn?t even the best part. It seems like only yesterday that Heidi and Spencer were spreading their evilness all throughout The Hills. Fast forward a couple of years and now the couple known as Spiedy is broke! If that wasn?t bad enough they are in such dire straits they have moved in with Spencer?s parents. Don?t feel too bad for them though his parents live in a beach house in Santa Barbara, so it isn?t like they are living in a shack. The couple recently admitted to The Daily Beast that they have regrets, namely for thinking that their reality TV fame would last forever, insert a duh here if you want I did. They also regret damaging relationships with friends and family by being so evil and pulling stunts strictly for publicity reasons, yep that divorce was as fake as Heidi?s entire body. Oh they also regret becoming the characters they played on the show, whatever that means. Some may feel bad for these two but not me. I don?t care what kind of character you thought you were playing in Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RightCelebrity/~3/2YKsveYXB6g/Jennifer Love Hewitt

Russell Simmons Shows Off New GF!

Lucky man!
Check out the photo (above) of Russell Simmons showing off his new GF Melissa George during his 12th Annual Art For Life Benefit in East Hampton, NY on Saturday.
Not only was she an Alias alum, but gurl looks faboosh in white! Anyone else remember how she was dressed in the 2009 Academy Awards? Just Source: http://perezhilton.com/2011-08-01-russell-simmons-shows-off-new-girlfriend-melissa-george-at-arts-benefitBonnie Jill Laflin

The Men Tell All, Part 1

Ashley is confronted by men she rejected.Source: http://www.ivillage.com/men-tell-all-part-1-0/1-h-369178Ashlee Simpson

Kings Of Leon Cancel U.S. Tour

'The band is devastated,' a statement to MTV News reads.By Jocelyn Vena, with additional reporting by James Montgomery Kings of Leon's Caleb Followill (file) Photo: Getty/ Jeff Kravitz After cutting a show short in Dallas on Friday night, the Kings Of Leon have announced plans to scrap the remainder of their U.S. tour. "We are so sorry to say Kings of Leon are canceling their entire US tour due to Caleb Followill suffering from vocal issues and exhaustion," reads a statement from the band to MTV News. "The band is devastated, but in order to give their fans the shows they deserve, they need to take this break." The band had planned to reschedule the Dallas show, where frontman Caleb Followill had fallen ill, and had to postpone a Saturday night gig in Houston. But now it seems even those plans have also been shelved. "Unfortunately, the US dates cannot be rescheduled due to the band's international tour schedule," the statement continues. "Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase. Tickets purchased online or via phones will be automatically refunded." For now, Followill will get the rest he seems to need. The band will kick off the next leg of the tour next month but also a bit later than originally planned. "The band will resume touring in Canada at the Rogers Center in Vancouver, BC, on September 28th," the band further announced. "That show was originally scheduled for September 14th." While Followill's illness has been cited as the official cause for the delayed and canceled dates, KOL bassist and Caleb's brother, Jared Followill, cited some internal issues as a cause for the tour hiatus as well. "There are internal sicknesses & problems that have needed to be addressed ... I can't lie," he tweeted. "There are problems in our band bigger than not drinking enough Gatorade." Share your well-wishes for Caleb Followill in the comments below. Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Kings Of Leon Related Artists Kings Of Leon Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1668248/kings-of-leon-cancel-tour-caleb-followill-exhaustion.jhtmlCharlies Angels

'Cowboys & Aliens': Jon Favreau Talks Creating Creatures

Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro advised director, who aimed to 'maintain some mystery and surprises.'By Eric Ditzian Daniel Craig in "Cowboys & Aliens" Photo: Universal Pictures How do you surprise someone who's seen it all — aliens who snatch bodies and aliens with dreadlocks and aliens who bloodily birth themselves from your stomach and aliens who phone home and aliens who eat cat food and great big blue aliens with tails they use for sex? Forget about the decades of classic extraterrestrial flicks that stream daily on TV, tablets and desktops. This year alone, movies like "Battle: Los Angeles," "Super 8," "Green Lantern" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" have hit the big screen, each trying to deliver not only eye-popping visuals but the post-credits comment between friends, "Damn, dude, have you ever seen something like that?" The answer, all too often and quite understandably, is, "Yes, yes, I have." That's the challenge "Cowboys & Aliens" director Jon Favreau faced as he sought to bring alien baddies to the Old West for a genre mash-up that hit theaters Friday (July 29). Favreau, though, counts himself lucky that he was able to lean on some of the most-established sci-fi players in Hollywood for help. The cinematic result is a race of aliens that land in a down-on-its-luck mining town, start to kidnap residents and eventually reveal themselves as extraterrestrial superfreaks on par with anything we've seen at the theater in recent years. Earlier this month in Montana, Favreau talked with MTV News about what makes a great big-screen alien, the special-effects decisions that helped his filmmaking process and the advice Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro gave him along the way. (Beware of spoilers below.) "When you set out to make a movie like 'Cowboys & Aliens,' if you just play it as one joke for the whole movie, you're in trouble," Favreau explained. "You run out of gas after about the length of an 'SNL' sketch. So we really wanted to find an approach that could bear out a whole story. Part of it was identifying what kind of alien movie to make and what kind of cowboy movie to make." The answer to the alien question was to reach back to classics of the '70s and '80s, before CG glam overtook practical effects as the preferred method of creating otherworldly creatures. "The alien movies I like the most are the ones I grew up with," he said. "It was the pre-CG, almost verging on horror versions of alien films, like 'Alien,' 'Aliens,' 'Predator' and all the Spielberg stuff, and I include 'Jaws' in that, too. They were all the same kind of movie. "It was before you had computer effects, so you had to, through lighting and mystery and music, slowly reveal the creature. That technique has some somewhat been lost now, thanks to CGI. Even though we have CGI creatures eventually, we do use animatronics and we do use lighting and all the old techniques to reveal them." The aliens in "Cowboys" have landed in an Arizona town to mine for gold — a metal as precious to humans as it is to these space travelers. What's truly cool about them is their transformative quality: Their faces move and shift to expose layers below, and their bodies open up to unleash hidden, gooey hands. Gross and fascinating and scary, all at once. That's exactly what Favreau was hoping to accomplish. " 'Predator' and 'Alien': What was fun about those films is, as you saw the creatures, more and more layers were revealed, whether it was armor coming off with 'Predator' weaponry, or in the case of 'Alien,' with the second set of teeth or the metamorphosis that it did from its egg state to the face-hugger to whatever that larval phase was when it busts out of your chest and finally into the big ," he said. "It's the shape-shifting quality of the aliens that I thought was really cool. We wanted to maintain some mystery and surprises with our creature." To create those surprises, Favreau not only depended on his team of artists and effects masters, but on Spielberg and del Toro. " was very involved with certain aspects of it preproduction, and one of those aspects was the alien design, because he's been involved with so many," he said. "And now seeing 'Falling Skies' and seeing 'Super 8,' I see that he was not just involved with his own films, but other films and projects he's been producing and overseeing. He had a lot of specific insight into what things were important. "And Guillermo del Toro, I also know him, and he's masterful," Favreau added. "He always said you've got to get the silhouette right first and then you got to get the color right and then you got to get the detail right, in that order. He's actually somebody who helped out and came in the editing room. I was showing him our animatronic work, because he's very picky about that stuff, and when I knew it passed his muster, I felt very good." Check out everything we've got on "Cowboys & Aliens." For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com. Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: 'Cowboys and Aliens' Related Photos 'Cowboys & Aliens' Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1668176/cowboys-and-aliens-creatures.jhtmlClaudette Ortiz