Mo’Nique Wins Golden Globe

Comedian turned actress Mo’Nique won a golden globe for her supporting role in the film ‘Precious.’

“I’m shaking,” she said. “And when I tell y’all I am in the midst of my dream, and when I look into the eyes of the man that I stood next to at 14 years old and I said to him, ‘One day, we are going to be stars.’ And he said, ‘You first.’ And we walked this red carpet together tonight. Sidney, I love you more than you will ever know, baby.”

Spiderman 4 to be put on hold

Spiderman 4 was slated to be released May 5th, 2011, but it now looking like that won’t happen. Reports coming out of LA say that there is a conflict between the film’s director, Sam Raimi and the studio over several issues with the script. The main one being who the villain will be be. Rumor is that Raimi wants John Malkovich, rumored to play the Vulture.

Avatar Recieves Good Ratings

This trailer of Avatar is 3 minutes of awesomeness! I’m really hooked by the story and the atmosphere of Avatar! The character of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who is torn between his dedication to the Marines, and his new found Na’vi family, is gonna be my new favorite hero!

Marilyn Monroe Smokes Pot - Private Film

A newly unearthed home movie shows the legendary Marilyn Monroe starring in a private version of “Reefer Madness” as she puffs on a joint some 50 years ago.

The silent color film was shot in either 1958 or 1959 at a private home in New Jersey, and had been stored in an attic for years.

But it recently emerged when collector Keya Morgan purchased the footage for $275,000 from the person who shot it.

Morgan, a collector of historical photos, manuscripts and autographs, is working on a documentary about Monroe’s death in 1962. He plans to put the copyright of the image up for sale on eBay next week.

“This is the late ’50s, so she is already very famous, but this is a personal side of her we’ve never seen before,” Morgan said.

While it is not 100 percent clear from the image that Monroe is actually puffing on wacky-tobaccy, the man who shot the footage confirms that it is, indeed, the evil weed.

“I got it [the pot]. It was mine. It was just passed around,” he said, asking that his identity not be revealed. “It was just a get-together. You know, come over and hang out.”

The footage captures the blond bombshell taking a shallow drag on the joint. Later, when the mind-bending effects of the drug had taken effect, she appears to take a whiff of her own armpit and breaks into hysterical laughter.

Morgan said he caught wind of the footage and tracked down the owner, who had kept it as part of his personal archives for all these years.

As her career rose to stratospheric levels, following massive hits like, “Some Like it Hot” and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” Monroe battled depression through increasingly heavy drug use.

A few months before she died, she sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F, Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, in one of the most iconic moments of her life.

Monroe died at age 36 from a prescription-drug overdose. She was later interred in a crypt in Los Angeles’ Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. The crypt space to her left has been bought by Playboy magazine guru Hugh Hefner, but the one on her right was recently put up for sale on eBay.

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Daniel Radcliffe Ready To Move On

Daniel Radcliffe talks about what he wants to do with his life after “Harry Potter”

Daniel Radcliffe, or as most of his fans probably know him, Harry Potter, says that once he retires his wand, he’s excited to start a family of his own.

Radcliffe is currently filming the last two movies for the “Harry Potter” series (“The Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2”) and he shared that he is very influenced by the children who are on the set.

“What’s been cool is that I’ve been here when a lot of people here have had kids while on the film, and I’ve seen the change it’s made in their life and how amazing it is,” Radcliffe shared with the Daily News.

Before Radcliffe starts having children of his own, he first wants to settle down, and portrayed Harry Potter has not hurt his dating life. Radcliffe reports dating woman older than him when he was younger.

The latest installment of the “Harry Potter” series is due out in winter of 2010.

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MJ’s ‘This is it’ coming to DVD in January

“This Is It,” the box-office sensation that captures Michael Jackson [ tickets ] rehearsing for what was to be the late King of Pop’s string of comeback concerts, will be available for the small screen early next year.

Scheduled for release on Jan. 26, the home version of “This Is It”–which will be available in Blu-ray, DVD and PSP formats–will feature all of the footage shown in the theatrical version, as well as bonus features including two making-of documentaries and a “costume featurette,” according to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Additionally, the Blu-ray edition will feature exclusives including “all-new ‘Smooth Criminal’ and ‘Thriller’ vignettes,” among other extras.

Originally due to play in theaters for only two weeks, “This Is It” saw its theatrical run extended thanks to strong ticket sales; the flick has reportedly grossed more than $70 million in the US and almost $170 million worldwide since its October release.

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Iron Man 2: Releases New Poster

It’s here! The first official poster for Iron Man 2 has debuted over on Yahoo and it features a familiar face. It’s no secret that the sequel will highlight the rise of Iron Man’s sidekick War Machine, so it only makes sense that he appears with him on the poster.

Jon Favreau has been keeping his word during the majority of the preliminary promotion for the film. We heard that the poster might drop this weeks and lo’ and behold it did! The director also hinted that the first teaser trailer for Iron Man 2 might play in front of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, another Robert Downey Jr. pic.

It sounds like a great way to kick off the 2010 promotion for the film, and hopefully that’s exactly what will happen. The only odd thing about the trailer showing up in front Holmes is the fact that Iron Man 2 is a Paramount production and Holmes is Warner Bros, but hopefully it all works out.

Here’s the full poster that we’ll have to drool over until something new comes a long. It features the new Iron Man suit as well as War Machine and his ever present weaponry. I need some AC/DC to start playing in my ear right about now.

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‘Star Trek’s’ Zoe Saldana Bikini Photos

Not only did she do a good job in this years released ‘Star Trek,’ she looked good while doing it. We’ll be seeing plenty of her down the road, since the production company is slate to make two more ‘Star Trek’ films with the same case.

Robin Wright doin’ right

Robin Wright has her juiciest role since “Forrest Gump” in Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” a starry, semi-satirical version of ’70s feminist dramas like “Diary a Mad Housewife” and “An Unmarried Woman.”

If the title “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” weren’t already taken, it would fit this uneven movie, and not only because of Wright’s Pippa Lee, who is coming apart after moving to a Connecticut retirement community.

Our 40-ish heroine has long been married to the much older Herb (Alan Arkin), a publisher who refuses to give up work entirely after three heart attacks — and increasingly vocally resents that Pippa has become his caretaker.

That — and the sudden arrival of Chris (Keanu Reeves), the hunky 35-year-old unemployed, emotionally damaged and newly single son of a neighbor (Shirley Knight) — triggers a series of sleepwalking episodes.

Pippa Lee’s façade as a perfect hostess — she’s described as “a mystery and an enigma” by a friend — is also cracking under the strain of memories of her turbulent youth.

Maria Bello once again pushes the envelope as Pippa Lee’s emotionally volatile, pill-popping mother, whose mood swings eventually force the teenage Pippa Lee to flee to a lesbian aunt in Manhattan.

But there, Pippa Lee encounters her aunt’s girlfriend (a nifty cameo by Julianne Moore), who offers a taste of “dangerous” fun.

Pippa Lee (played as a young woman by Blake Lively) falls in with a druggy art crowd in the 1970s.

But she gravitates toward the controlling Herb, even though he has a wife (Monica Belluci) who is arguably even crazier than even her mother.

Back in the present, Pippa Lee has a hyper-dramatic, untrustworthy best friend (a very funny Winona Ryder) and a daughter (the always excellent Zoe Kazan) who despises her, risking her life as a photojournalist in the Middle East.

Miller never really fleshes out all of these colorful characters in her emotionally facile script, leaving the heavy lifting to the actors.

Fortunately for “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” Wright is more than up to the challenge.

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Twilight: New Moon - Selling Sex?

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” features long, steamy, smoldering gazes by handsome, shirtless young men who are vampires or werewolves. Despite those lingering, lustful looks the film includes only four kisses and not a single sex scene.

Women and girls, who made up 80 percent of the opening weekend audience, said that is one reason “The Twilight Saga” appeals to them.

“I actually like that, the fact that they don’t have bedroom scenes or anything,” Gabrielle Rivera, 15, said.

Lisa Gradie, who has read all of the “Twilight” books, said she loves it “because the movie is so much about tension, and so much about Bella and Edward and they can’t get together, so the kind of downplayed sexual tension definitely adds to the movie because you’re just waiting for something to happen.”

“The Twilight Saga” stands in stark contrast to other vampire movies or series. From Bela Lugosi to HBO’s “True Blood,” vampires are most often associated with the libido.

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