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[danoyse]

I like Ricky Gervais...but I have to admit, I like the American version of "The Office" better.

 

[Storm22]

No, hes a pompous prick who's head is shoved so far up his arse that the doctors had to tear him a new one.

He isnt funny, its everyone else around him who's funny. He cant do stand up to save his life and after watching that episode of the simpsons he wrote i felt like getting into a bath of warm water and disemboweling myself.

That is how much i hate ricky gervais

He may not be the best stand up comedian but there's no denying "The Office" was great and that's largely due to him! Also "Extras" has some great moments of comedy. I'd hardly call him pompous either but each to their own I suppose.

 

[Aiden]

I hate Ricky Gervais but love Will Ferrell

 

[WorthyStevens]

moviefone.com

 

[narrows101]

For a change of pace -

http://www.gay.com/entertainment/article.html?sernum=1253

 

[oneteen]

Don't this this has been posted.

 

[berzerko89]

nice find!

 

[TNC9852002]

Wait...Extra's having and X-Men exclusive on Monday?!

-TNC

 

[Celestio]

No, hes a pompous prick who's head is shoved so far up his arse that the doctors had to tear him a new one.

He isnt funny, its everyone else around him who's funny. He cant do stand up to save his life and after watching that episode of the simpsons he wrote i felt like getting into a bath of warm water and disemboweling myself.

That is how much i hate ricky gervais

Agreed, I used to dislike him, but I hate him even more now.

He felt he was too big a star to be given an award by Noel Edmonds. Apparently Noel isn't 'famous enough' to give him an award.

 

[Avalanche]

Agreed, I used to dislike him, but I hate him even more now.

He felt he was too big a star to be given an award by Noel Edmonds. Apparently Noel isn't 'famous enough' to give him an award.

Well, Noel annoys me too, but not nearly as much as Ricky. Guess I'm not a fan of him either.

 

[Celestio]

Well, Noel annoys me too, but not nearly as much as Ricky. Guess I'm not a fan of him either.

Yes but when you're getting an award, you don't complain about who is giving it you.

 

[berzerko89]

anna looks weird in that photo.

 

[oneteen]

Wait...Extra's having and X-Men exclusive on Monday?!

-TNC

Yes indeedy. I saw it on a commercial yesterday while Kimmel was on a commercial.

 

[aaron]

rhymes with fat woman lol

 

[Aiden]

From my MSN 8.0 BETA

 

[Advanced Dark]

FILM



Hollywood’s gay summer (Gay)
Super bulges, Streep as the ‘Devil’ and high-flying snakes hit the screen

By BRIAN MOYLAN
Friday, May 05, 2006


FOR THOSE WHO just can’t beat the heat, the best place to escape is your local cineplex. The theaters are always cool, the popcorn is fresh and, this year, those Hollywood big budget movies promise to be gay, gay, gay.

The action starts off with a bang — actually a giant wave — on May 12, when "Poseidon," a remake of the camp classic "The Poseidon Adventure" washes onto the big screen. Like the 1972 original, the movie follows a group of passengers trying to escape a capsized cruise ship after it’s been toppled by a wave. In this version, a father (Kurt Russell) and daughter ("Phantom of the Opera’s" Emmy Rossum) are joined by a suicidal gay man (Richard Dreyfuss), among others.

"The Da Vinci Code" has been burning up the bestseller list forever, and now it’s time for the movie version to crack the code to success on May 19. Along for the ride is gay actor Ian McKellen who plays British historian Sir Leigh Teabing.

The following week, on May 26, McKellen makes his third appearance in the "X-Men" movie franchise in "X-Men: The Last Stand," which also features gay favorites Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry as super-powered do-gooders. Joining up with the team is Kelsey Grammar (TV’s Frasier Crane) as the furry Beast, but left out is gay director Bryan Singer, who helmed the first two installments. Taking over is Brett Ratner.

SINGER LEFT TO start production on "Superman Returns" which is trying to re-launch the franchise into the cinematic stratosphere with sexy newcomer Brandon Routh as the hero and Kevin Spacey as villain Lex Luthor. The gay buzz on this film took off earlier this year when rumors starting flying that studio execs were worried that Routh’s super bulge in his tights was too big and distracting.

Taking flight June 30, the movie picks up where past Superman movies have left off and has the Man of Steel returning to Metropolis after five years in the vast reaches of space.

The same weekend, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway (whose hair stole the show in "Brokeback Mountain") star as a *****y fashion editor and her cowed assistant in "The Devil Wears Prada," the go-to movie for evil queens that skewers the oh-so-fabulous Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

On June 28, the much-delayed big-screen version of "Strangers With Candy" finally comes out. Based on the 2001 Comedy Central series that’s like an after school special gone awry, Amy Sedaris plays Jerry Blank and Stephen Colbert plays her not-very-closeted teacher. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick also have cameos.

Also in June, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan are part of an ensemble cast in Robert Altman’s "A Prairie Home Companion" on June 9. On June 2, "Best in Show’s" John Michael Higgins takes on the tired role of the girl’s best gay friend in the Jennifer Aniston/Vince Vaughn romantic comedy "The Break Up." Let’s hope the rest of the movie isn’t as formulaic.

EVERYONE CAN
take a breather in July, when the only big gay release is Sundance darling "Little Miss Sunshine." This story about a wacky clan racing the titular character cross country to enter a beauty pageant features a suicidal gay academic with a Proust fixation (Steve Carell) along for the ride on July 28.

August’s big comedy, "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" has NASCAR in its sights on Aug. 4. Will Ferrell plays Bobby, the king of the pro racing circuit, who is about to lose his crown to upstart gay French driver Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays gay Bruno and others on HBO’s "Da Ali G Show").

The same day Sundance’s other darling "Quinceañera," about coming of age and gay gentrification in a Latino Los Angeles neighborhood, comes out. Gay director Wash Westmoreland hasn’t gotten this much attention since he directed gay porn classics like "The Hole."

Aug. 18’s much buzzed about "Snakes on a Plane" not only features gay flight attendants, but also sexy Bobby Canavale, the veteran of several gay roles and gay-themed productions.

Gay "Tales of the City" novelist Armistead Maupin got his old friend Robin Williams to star in the adaptation of his novel "The Night Listener," arriving in theaters Aug. 18, about a radio host who forms a friendship with a young AIDS patient (Rory Culkin) who may or may not have been abused by his birth parents.

AS USUAL, THERE ARE a bunch of smaller gay-themed movies that may or may not make it to a theater near you or may be coming out at different dates.

May brings lesbian actress Cynthia Nixon as a grieving mother in the comedy "One Last Thing."

Gay film festival favorite and Reel Affirmations selection "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green" gets a wider release in June, appropriately enough.

Who knows whether the title of Spanish "Queens" refers to the gay grooms-to-be in this comedy or their five mothers. This marriage flick is appropriately walking down the aisle in June.

All those who are into a good sports story will love "The Heart of the Game," a documentary about a girl’s basketball team and its star player, who has a hard time getting it together on the court.

While July is short on big gay movies, it’s surely going to have plenty of small ones. "Poster Boy," about a gay activist’s romance with a conservative senator’s son, "The House of Adam," where a gay man with a closeted cop lover clashes with rural religious fanatics, "Time to Leave," a ‘50s-style melodrama about a dying gay man and "The Bridesmaid," a woman who makes her lovers sleep with members of the same sex before sleeping with her, all premiere that month.

Interesting take on things. LOL

 

[WorthyStevens]

What is your most anticipated movie of the summer?

23.5% Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
23.0% X-Men: The Last Stand
17.2% Da Vinci Code
14.7% Superman Returns
5.1% Mission: Impossible III
3.8% Cars
3.8% Snakes on a Plane
3.4% Other
2.7% Miami Vice
2.2% Poseidon
0.6% The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

3,018 users polled.


http://boxofficemojo.com/polls/?page=viewpoll&id=333&p=.htm

 

[Aiden]

Cool news. Beaten by 0.5%

 

[Celestial]

New interview with Patrick Stewart at Empireonline.
He talks about the possibility of X4.

 

[Emma718]

^ good interview

 

[LEX]

“When it comes to it you can never say it’s the last because a lot of it is about economic drive. The first two films were among the most successful films ever, if the third would continues that theme, I would imagine there’s a strong possibility that within a short while a fourth one might be in the planning.”

 

[narrows101]

Poor Hugh!

http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/sho-sunday-movies07.html

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]'X-Men: The Last Stand' (May 26) [/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]They're back -- Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen and Rebecca Romijn as mutant misfit superheroes. In this installment, they find a cure that will make them normal, but is normal really that good of an idea when there is all that trouble in the world that needs fixing? Original director Bryan Singer has defected to direct "Superman," so "Rush Hour" helmer Brett Ratner takes over.

[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Inside scoop: The first two films were so successful a third was a given, although producers are quick to say the title doesn't mean this is the last of the films. "I could honestly see it going on forever," says Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman, who insists it was just another day at the office. "You put on the fur, look at yourself in the mirror and feel your powers." The only bad part? "Wearing the harness for some of the stunts where we're in the air just kills your privates," he says.

[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Looking forward to: Kelsey Grammer abandons his head case Frasier to become Beast, a guy with blue skin and an attitude.[/FONT]

 

[narrows101]

http://comics.ign.com/articles/705/705361p1.html

Top Ten X-Babes
Counting down the lovely ladies who wear X and little else.

May 5, 2006 - It's X-Men month at IGN Comics, in honor of the upcoming release of X-Men: The Last Stand. It also happens to be E3 next week. Yes, the biggest videogame convention of the year runs smack dab through our celebration of all things X. For those not in the know, the governing body of E3 has sworn to crack down on the ever-popular booth babes. For this reason, we decided to give you some cheesecake for the weekend. You may see fewer booth babes in IGN's E3 coverage, but at least you can imagine the ten finest ladies of X if they were to be showcasing games.

There were plenty of lovely ladies to choose from. It wasn't all about looks. Personality counts, no really. Check our picks and then tell us your top ten. Who knows, we may post your superior selection for all the world to enjoy.

 

[Storm22]

Dunno if this has been posted....

http://www.totalfilm.com/features/tf_gets_insider_info_on_x-men_3

TF gets insider info on X-Men 3
John Bruno, visual effects supervisor on X3, tells TF what it's really like working with Brett Ratner
04 May 2006 4:00pm


It’s not long after 9am and as the Friday traffic slips past a busy coffee shop in LA, totalfilm.com strains to hear the man who gave Wolverine his claws. John Bruno, visual effects supervisor, shouldn’t really be here but frankly, he’s just too nice. Taking time out from working on the final shots of X-Men: The Last Stand to suck back a latte and give us the juice from the set of a flick that can only be described as ‘anxiously anticipated.’ So, is he pleased that by talking to us he can pinch a quick break?

“I don’t mind.” See, too nice. “Today’s just so important, the international version is done today, no matter what.” He says with a mixed look of relief and pride.

No stranger to the blockbuster, Bruno’s colourful career kicked off as an animation supervisor on Poltergeist in 1982. Since then, he’s cashed cheques for his contributions on Ghostbusters, Batman Returns, Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Alien Vs Predator. However, Bruno admits that various chops and changes at the helm of X3 - franchise director Bryan Singer departed for Superman Returns, Layer Cake lenser Matthew Vaughn then jumped ship after only a few weeks before the studio signed up Rush Hour helmer Brett Ratner, much to the fanboys disgust - ate through precious production time meaning the production was certainly a one-off experience.

“I had to write a thesis on the visual effects for this movie, can you believe that?” Bruno throws his arms wide. “I’ve never had to do that before but with so little time, I couldn’t show the producers anything so I had to tell them what I was going to do. That’s not normally part of the job description but we’re never normally this rushed.”

Bruno boarded the project last April and was surprised to hear he only had a year to turn it all around.

“It would have been much harder if we’d had to start from scratch but obviously we used the first films as a reference for what we wanted to do and we spoke with the writers to see how the characters would be influenced in this movie.”

A few weeks into pre-production and the effects team were sweating over the lycra-tight timeframe, “I really wasn’t sure we’d physically be able to do it, that was quite daunting,” he admits. “The first approach was to try to do as much in-camera as possible and don’t reinvent the wheel. Mystique was done by the group that had worked on the character in the previous movies, we had new characters but we tried to maintain the parity between all three films – they had to look like they were done by the same people and nothing could be shockingly different.”

At the point of signing to the project there was no script, just a basic outline but even that was incomplete. “What we did have was the bridge sequence, so I started with that.” The bridge sequence being the stunning shots that dominate the closing scenes of the X3 trailer, all snapping cables and falling cars. “We had a 60 ft long section in miniature that I think was the first part and we shot that in-camera at the proper time of day.” John says, checking off the sequences in his memory.

“Then we built the rest on the computer and then we built a full-size mock-up of the Golden Gate Bridge - 200 ft long, 100ft wide - and shot it at night but it was meant to be dusk, sunset. So they brought in a bunch of airport landing lights to fake the sun and we shot it in the rain.” Quite something then? “Oh yes. When you see it, it looks stunning, you won’t be able to tell it’s not real. We also built Alcatraz prison yard with a full section of bridge and another full section with people and cars all over it.”

In an era when real stunts and set pieces are enjoying a resurgence over CGI, director Brett Ratner was keen to film as much of the action as possible, turning to computer wizardry only when completely necessary.

“Brett wanted to do as much in-camera as possible and as a result, it’s pretty spectacular and satisfying for someone in my role. So when you see Angel flying, that is done on location and we just animated wings onto him. There’s this spectacular sequence where he jumps out of a window and he’s a hundred feet in the air, it’s the real actor. Halle Berry was shot in the same way. Halle did all her own action and so did Hugh Jackman.”

Drawing him onto the subject of Ratner’s controversial appointment, Bruno is blatantly honest in his initial concerns. “Everybody says this guy is really demanding but Brett was a whole lot of fun,” he says with a smile. “In the beginning he said to me ‘look, I don’t know a lot about special effects, you do so I’m going to concentrate on personalities and characters.’ He always wanted to make sure that the visual effects are extensions of the character, which is exactly what we did.”

The helmer's generous spirit filtered through the project and Bruno recalls how a painful night-shoot was made all the more enjoyable by a certain Brit thesp.

“We were on an evening shoot on the Alcatraz set and Brett was talking through the standard director instructions, ‘Something’s happening to the left, okay now look right…’ then Ian McKellan said, ‘Do you mind if I do that?’ So he took the script and read two pages of description. It was like he was standing there reading Shakespeare, it was fantastic. Here we all were, three in the morning, frozen solid and everybody was just mesmerised by Ian reading this description! It was so good, we had him do it again just for laughs. It’ll probably end up on the DVD.”

After he’s finished his coffee, John Bruno heads back to the lot to watch as the final pieces of the X-Men 3 jigsaw are slotted into place. He seems very calm considering the movie opens in less than a month. “It’s right to the wire,” he says. “But I’ve seen almost all the movie twice now and trust me, it’s pretty spectacular.”

We do trust him, he bought the coffee. What a nice guy.

 

[TNC9852002]

Dammit...Why didn't he say anything about the running time if he's seen almost the whole movie twice?..



-TNC