At The Movies

Taking Woodstock
Academy Award winning director Ang Lee tells the story of the Greenwich Village interior designer who inadvertently helped to spark a cultural revolution by offering the organizers of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival boarding at his family's Catskills motel. Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) is working as an interior designer when he discovers that a high profile concert has recently lost its permit from the nearby town of Wallkill, NY. Tiber phones producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures and offers boarding to the harried concert crew. Later, as the Woodstock Ventures staff begans arriving in droves, half a million concertgoers make their way to Max Yasgur's (Eugene Levy) adjacent farm in White Lake, NJ, to witness the counterculture celebration that would ultimately make history as one of the greatest events in the annals of rock & roll. Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, and Paul Dano co-star.

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Duplicity
Julia Roberts and Clive Owen star as two sexy ex-spies and lovers who have left the world of government intelligence to cash in on the highly profitable cold war raging between two rival multinational corporations. Their mission? Secure the formula for a product that will bring a fortune to the company that patents it first. But as the stakes rise, and they find themselves on either side of an all out corporate war, they'll put everything on the line to remain one double cross ahead in a tricky game of cat and mouse.

The Buzz..

Brian May posted to his blog last week that he was "completely blown away by the song written for American Idol runner up Adam Lambert for upcoming movie 2012. "Adam's voice reaches out with sensitivity, depth, maturity, and awesome range and power which will make jaws drop all around the world. Its an awesome performance. No doubt about it. The world of Rock has a bright new star" says May.

Paramount Pictures has moved Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island from an October release date to February, which takes it out of awards consideration for this year. The anticipated thriller marks the latest pairing of Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio, following Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed, which won the Academy Award for best picture and earned Scorsese his first directing Oscar. It also stars Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley and Michelle Williams.

One Tree Hill actor Antwon Tanner has pleaded guilty to selling more than a dozen Social Security numbers for $10,000. Tanner told a federal judge that he was a middleman, selling numbers someone else provided. He and his lawyer didn't comment on how he got involved in the scheme. Tanner is expected to get as much as a year in prison at his sentencing, set for Nov. 20.

A Michael Jackson film built around rehearsal footage left behind after his death will be released in a limited two week theatrical engagement worldwide. Sony announced that the release date for Michael Jackson: This Is It has been moved up to Oct. 28, two days earlier than previously announced. Tickets go on sale Sept. 27. The studio also announced longtime Jackson collaborator Kenny Ortega is directing This Is It, which offers a behind the scenes glimpse of Jackson preparing for a series of London shows he was rehearsing when he died June 25.

The comedian who kept NBC viewers entertained on Thursday nights well after The Cosby Show was gone will salute Bill Cosby when he receives the nation's top humor prize. Jerry Seinfeld will honor Cosby on Oct. 26 with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.

Motley Crue's Vince Neil has slammed Axl Rose for letting the Guns N' Roses fans down. Guns N' Roses' latest album, Chinese Democracy, the band's first since 1993's The Spaghetti Incident, failed to live up to the hype its 10 years in the making generated. Neil says that believes GNR's loyal fans have finally grown sick of the band, thanks chiefly to Rose's failure to turn up to rehearsals and perform live shows.

Janet Jackson is planning to write a tell all book. The second most famous Jackson sibling will focus on her battle with self esteem and weight and how she's coped throughout her success. The book will also discuss her family relationships as well as how the Jacksons dealt with the loss of Michael. No word on whether she'll discuss her long time romance and recent split with ex-boyfriend Jermaine Dupri.

How many more Twilight movies can we expect? Well, if you asked new cast member Boo Boo Stewart he'd say five. In a recent interview with Access Hollywood, the new actor who's cast to play shapeshifter Seth Clearwater in Eclipse said, "There's going to be Eclipse, Breaking Dawn and there should be one more." Now before you get your hopes up, Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the Twilight movies, was quick to put a kibosh on the rumours.

The celebrity appearances for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival have been announced and the line-up looks pretty star studded! Megan Fox, Drew Barrymore, Clive Owen, Oprah Winfrey and Mariah Carey are amongst the stars who will be hitting the red carpets at TIFF this year.

Black Eyed Peas have become the first band to top Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart for 20 weeks in a row. Boom Boom Pow was number one for 12 weeks and I Gotta Feeling has held the spot for the last eight. Will.I.Am responded to the news, saying "With the success of these two songs, your ego wants to ‘ego wow’ …when a lot of the time the credit goes to the fans.” The Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D. has sold over 900,000 copies since June.

A New York City lawmaker wants to see Michael Jackson honored at a subway station where the star made the music video for Bad. Councilwoman Letitia James wants a plaque placed at Brooklyn's Hoyt Schermerhorn station or to have Jackson added to the station's name.

Meat Loaf is staying relatively tight lipped about his next album, which is expected in 2010, but he can't help gushing about what a great time he's having making it. Credit for that, the rock singer says, goes to producer Rob Cavallo (Kid Rock, Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls), who's at the helm of Meat Loaf's first release since 2006's Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose.