The follow-up to the action hit “Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight” reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime.

Paramount Pictures is lurching onto the Web with its “Jackass” franchise, with what it says will be the first studio-backed feature film to have its premiere online. And the studio hopes the result will be considerably more pleasurable than the old MTV show’s trademark shot to the groin — perhaps by paving the way for more profit-making Web-only material.

On Dec. 19, the studio will make “Jackass 2.5” available in connection with Blockbuster’s Movielink service. The hour-plus film has original material and previously unseen outtakes from the second “Jackass” movie in 2006. The new movie, made for less than $2 million, will stream for free but will have 15- or 30-second commercials before and after it plays.

At the same time, the studio’s fellow subsidiary of Viacom, MTV Networks, and the creators of the “Jackass” franchise are using the new film to attract traffic to JackassWorld.com, now under construction.

Full Story on the The NY Times Website

Mira Sorvino and Jennifer Connelly may play the wives in Terry George’s latest film, "Reservation Road," but that doesn’t mean they’re stuck in the kitchen baking a cake. The story asks a lot more of them than that, and they would demand nothing less. "I read the script and thought it was beautiful," says Connelly, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind." "It’s rare that I read something that I feel so certain about." Sorvino, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Mighty Aphrodite, adds, "I was eaten alive inside by it." … Though the story focuses on the men, the women tell us a lot about who the guys are - and what they become.

Full Review of "Reservation Road" on The NY Daily News Website

I think Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino are so hot that I made the composite photo of both of them together in sexy poses with short skirts and high heels. You can click on it for a slightly larger version.

On the set of He’s Just Not That Into You Scarlett Johansson and Bradley Cooper filmed a scene together. Bradley Cooper is known for his role in Wedding Crashers. He’s Not That Into You is scheduled for release next Summer (August 2008). The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting stories deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior. This film also has Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly and Drew Barrymore. Sounds like it will be a good movie with a cast like that.

Here’s the pics of Scarlett Johansson and Bradley Cooper.

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Marisol Nichols is just one yummy babe. According to information sent to her mailing list subscribers, she has "signed on to star in ‘FELON’… the best damn prison script since Shawshank, if we do say so ourselves."

Sony and Screen Gems Ent. are producing. She will be starring alongside: Val Kilmer, Stephen Dorf, and Sam Sheppard. That sounds pretty good to me. The movie films in New Mexico starting in October. No release date yet.

If you watch the TV show "24", you are probably used to seeing Marisol looking like the picture below. And if you really dig Marisol Nichols like I do, you will probably know that she also starred as the daughter in National Lampoon’s Las Vegas Vacation.

Marisol Nichols on Mr. Skin

Marisol Nichols Official Web Site

Jessica Alba is just super freakin’ delicious! The review of the movie Good Luck Chuck in the NY Daily News says the movie ain’t so great. Who cares! It’s kind of a chick flick, so you can get your woman to go to it with you, and you can oogle Jessica Alba the whole time. Nice! I do have to admit though, that a movie about a guy who doesn’t want to have sex and a girl who does is pretty far fetched.

Here’s the really great news. I have two slow motion clips that will be every guy’s favorite scene in the movie, when Jessica’s skirt accidentally gets ripped off and you see a close up of her wearing panties. Ok, so maybe you don’t need to see the movie now.

Jessica Alba Clip 1

Jessica Alba Clip 2

More great news is that I have a bunch of pics of Jessica Alba at the LA Premiere of Good Luck Chuck.

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Charlize Theron and Will Smith sent gossip columnists into overdrive when they were spotted screaming at one another on Hollywood Boulevard during filming of new movie John Hancock. Bystanders had no idea the row was being filmed when Theron was heard yelling "It’s over" at her co-star. But movie insiders have calmed the fuss, insisting the quarrel was part of the film.

Source: ContactMusic.com

Currently shooting around Los Angeles, the big-budget film — which has also been known simply as "Hancock," but whose title is still up in the air — puts Smith alongside Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman in a dark story that explores the flipside of being a superhero. So if the Venom-suited scenes from "Spider-Man 3" or the peanut-flicking bar moment in "Superman III" were among your favorites, "John Hancock" has your name written all over it.

"Will plays a down-and-out superhero — a drunk, homeless superhero that the [public] doesn’t like because he’s so drunk that when he solves crime, he creates a lot of collateral damage," Bateman explained of the movie, which has been dangling Smith on wires 50 feet over L.A. streets. "Early in the film he saves my life, and I say to pay him back I’ll revamp his image for him because I’m in corporate PR. We’re well into that, and I’m buying him a cape and telling him how to do news conferences and all that crap — and then he falls for my wife, Charlize Theron."

"There’s a real intelligence to it," said Theron, who reportedly has some steamy scenes with Smith.

More on the film on MTV.com

Pics of Charlize Theron On the Set looking hot below

‘Mr. Bean’s Holiday.’ Comedy about a naive tourist blundering his way through France. With Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe. Director: Steve Bendelack (1:29). G: Mild language. At area theaters.

There are certain elements in life that you either have a taste for, or you don’t. Like coffee. Cats. And Mr. Bean.

If you’re a fan of Rowan Atkinson’s aggressively inept man-child, then you’ll be pleased to know that the character’s latest comic outing devoutly follows the formula developed years ago. On the other hand, if you’ve never been particularly fond of Atkinson’s brand of slapstick, you certainly won’t be converted by this trifle.

The premise, which is little more than a line on which to hang the actor’s well-worn shtick, finds the wide-eyed Mr. Bean heading to the South of France for vacation. Along the way, he meets a little boy (Max Baldry) who needs to reunite with his father in Cannes. Since Bean loses his wallet early on, they have to get creative, hitching rides, earning money and extracting themselves from a variety of misadventures as best they can.

More on The NY Daily News

Mr. Bean’s Holiday Web Site has fun games, post cards, movie clips and more.

Frank Miller does some cool-ass shit, like Sin City and 300 … and now we have great news that Eva Mendes will be in his next picture, "The Spirit".

Nowadays, all you need to sell a kick-ass movie is to have Frank Miller name-dropped somewhere on the one-sheet. Hell, you could sell Care Bears From Planet X to 18-to-34-year-old males so long as the Variety ad proclaimed A Script Once Promptly Thrown in the Garbage by Frank Miller!

The Fabulous Mr. Miller is currently at work on pre-production on Will Eisner’s The Spirit, one of the great and groundbreaking comics in history. He’s already signed on an amazing cast for the noirish epic, including Sam Jackson and Scarlett Johansson. Now comes word from the trades that Miller has tapped Eva Mendes for the role of Sand Saref, the Spirit’s old flame.

Full Story on the Wired Blog

Two of my favorite actors in a totally suck movie … no pun intended at first, but now it is after I write it.

I need your help here folks. This goes out to all the straight guys in the audience. Is it just me, or is there anybody else that can’t figure out why movie-makers think a straight guy wants to see anything that has to do with gay guys? Seriously. WTF?!?! I know this isn’t as bad as "Broke Back Mountain", where the actors portrayed real gay guys. In "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry", Kevin James and Adam Sandler are playing guys that are pretending to be gay in order to get domestic partner benefits. Dude, I wouldn’t pretend to be gay for 1-freakin-million-dollars. I LOVE Kevin James and Adam Sandler (in a totally non-gay way), but this is one movie that I will wait to buy the discounted, previously viewed version from Blockbuster.

The NY Daily News says:

The new Adam Sandler comedy "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" is the movie equivalent of a double-jointed contortionist who can walk forward with his head turned backward. It is an hour and a half of clichéd gay jokes and 25 minutes of pro-gay apologies.

With a script partially credited to the team behind the Pinot Noir comedy hit "Sideways," "Chuck and Larry" is a lazy sitcom about two straight firefighting buddies who pretend to be a gay couple in order to get domestic partner benefits.

Seems that the chubby, recently widowed Larry (Kevin James) cannot provide for his two kids in the event of his death unless he’s married to a woman or officially partnered with a man. Since he’s too in love with his late wife to consider a second romance, he turns to the friend whose life he has just saved and requests the favor of a mock marriage.

The friend is Chuck (Sandler), the incorrigible, skirt-chasing Mr. February in their Brooklyn firehouse’s annual beefcake calendar. Larry is just sensitive enough to pass for gay, but Chuck, no way; there are five women in his bed at any time.

That’s the setup for the anecdotal sketches that are strung together in lieu of a plot.

Just imagine the panic in the firehouse shower when Chuck and Larry show up and somebody drops a bar of soap. Or, imagine Chuck’s suppressed delight when his bodacious legal advocate (Jessica Biel) asks him to fondle her breasts by way of confirming their naturalness.

Jessica Biel?!?! Breast fondling!?! Ok, maybe there is something good about this movie!

Read the rest of the review at The NY Daily News (Opens in new window)