Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes to theaters on July17th 09.
Born as Yang Zi Chong in the mining town of Ipoh in West Malaysia in the lunar year of the Tiger, she spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, she moved to London, England to study at the Royal Academy as a teenager.
After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in her native country and the Miss Moomba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s.
Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then later, Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and her on-set trainers to prepare for her martial arts action scenes. She uses many dance moves in her films. She still does most of her own stunts and has been injured many times.
Ironically, she still cannot read Chinese and she has to have Chinese script read to her.
In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon and retired from acting. Even though they divorced in 1992, she is close to Poon’s second wife and a godmother to Poon’s daughter.
When she returned to acting, she became very popular to Chinese audiences. Among her films from this period were Heroic Trio and Police Story 3 with Jackie Chan.
She became known to Western audiences through her co-starring roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Wo hu cang long (2000) aka Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee. She turned down a role in a sequel to The Matrix (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films and has trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in The Touch (2002), an English-language film she starred in and produced. She also did a superhero turn, playing the lead in Silver Hawk. She filmed Fearless in 2006 with Jet Li, but her scenes were edited out.
Since starring in the movie adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha in 2005, Michelle has had an increased presence in Hollywood films. She as part of the ensemble cast in Danny Boyle’s science-fiction film Sunshine in 2007. In 2008, she stars in The Children of Huang Shi with Chow Yun-fat, Babylon A.D. opposite Vin Diesel, and in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
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The curvy Denise Richards didn’t become a household name until her starring role in Starship Troopers in 1997, but this model turned actress quickly became the talk of the town thanks in no small part to her role in the Wild Things. That movie contains what many consider to be the hottest threesome sex scene ever captured on film, between herself, Neve Cambell and Matt Dillon. Those few minutes alone are worth a rental.
Richards became a Bond girl in the movie The World is Not Enough (Sophie Marceau) in 1999, playing Christmas Jones, and had a small role in the ensemble comedy Love, Actually (Keira Knightley). Richards showed off her body again in the December 2004 issue of Playboy.
In 2002, she married Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen, but their turbulent relationship would last only three years. According to Richards, Sheen was addicted to gambling, drugs and prostitutes, and was not fit to raise the couple’s children. She also claimed Sheen’s 9/11 conspiracy theories and paranoia got the best of him, as he wanted to purchase gas masks, and had an unhealthy obsession with Nicole Simpson’s murder.
But Richards was not so restrained, herself. In November of 2006, she got fed up with tabloid photographers and threw a paparazzo’s laptop off a balcony, mildly injuring two elderly ladies below.
She hopefully has calmed down since. Her next movie will be Deep in the Valley, where she will star with Kim Kardashian, using her bust and Kardashian’s derriere as film props.
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Halle Berry is an American actress and the first African American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. Voted #21 in the AskMen.com’s Top 99 Women 2008 Edition. In October 2008, she was deemed Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire magazine.
Halle was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio by her mother after her parents divorced in 1970. She was incredibly popular throughout her teenage years and was the high school newspaper editor, a cheerleader, honor society member, prom queen, and, of course, class president. She took her talent and beauty to the pageant circuit and was soon winning titles such as Miss Teen All-American and Miss Ohio USA.
After spending some time attending Cuyahoga Community College, Halle shipped off to Chicago to try her hand at acting. She supported herself by taking modeling jobs, but her passion was acting. After a few television roles and an R.Kelly music video, she landed the role of a drug addict in Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever”. To prep for her breakthrough role, Halle refused to bathe for two weeks. Her performance earned her the attention of directors and she was soon cast in “Strictly Business”, “Boomerang”, and “The Flintstones.”
While in Chicago, Halle began dating an abusive man who beat her to the point where she lost 80 percent of her hearing in her right ear. She went on to marry to pro baseball player David Justice in 1992. The marriage dissolved just four years later and the disappoint drove Halle to consider suicide. She has stated that thinking of her mother kept her alive.
Halle threw herself into her work following her divorce, portraying a variety of characters. She was a recovering addict fighting a custody battle in “Losing Isaiah,” inspirating to a Warren Beatty’s politician in “Bulworth,” and the first black nominee for a Best Actress Academy Award in the HBO biopic “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.” She also scored the role of Storm in “X-Men” - a role she reprised twice.
Halle had a big year in 2001. She married musician Eric Benet (who turned out to be a sex addict, rampant adulterer, and ungrateful bastard so she divorced him in 2005). She signed on for “Swordfish” and, for an additional $500,000, agreed to film a topless scene for the first time. Later that year, she would bare all in the graphic sex scenes filmed with Billy Bob Thorton in “Monster’s Ball.” The film, which cast her as the desperately lonely wife of a condemned convict, earned Halle the coveted Best Actress Oscar, a first for a black woman.
Following her big year, Halle’s roles were less about her talent and more about her body. She served as a Bond girl in “Die Another Day” and became “Catwoman.” Her most recent work has been the thriller “Perfect Stranger” with Bruce Willis and “Things We Lost in the Fire” with Benicio del Toro.
Halle has served as a spokesmodel for Revlon cosmetics and posed for a Versace campaign, where she met current boyfriend, French-Canadian model Gabriel Audrey. They have no plans to marry, but are expecting their first child together in 2008.
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Sexy French actress Eva Green is best known for her steamy performance as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (2007). She actually won a Bafta for that performance, which is like an Oscar.
Eva made her American film debut in the film Kingdom of Heaven (2005) opposite Orlando Bloom. She received positive critical feedback for the film and was offered the role of Madeleine Linscott in the film The Black Dahlia (2006), but she turned it down because she didn’t want to be typecast as a “femme fatale” and the role went to Hilary Swank instead. But when she was offered the chance to play a Bond girl (previous Bond girls are Halle Berry, Denise Richards and Famke Janssen) she leaped at the chance. She was next seen the The Golden Compass (2007) (with Nicole Kidman).
Eva can be seen next in the upcoming films Franklyn (2008) and Cracks (2009).
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Olga Kurylenko is a Ukrainian model and actress. She was born in Berdyansk, Ukraine and was discovered by a female model scout while on vacation in Moscow at the age of sixteen. She began her film career in France in 2005, signing with Parasian agency. She received the certificate of excellence award at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival for her performance in L’Annualaire, and also starred in the Paris, je t’aime segment Quartier de la Madeleine opposite Elijah Wood. In 2007, Kurylenko starred in the film Hitman alongside Timothy Olyphant.
She is all set to star in the next Bond Flick “Quantum of Solace”.
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Bond is back, and Daniel Craig makes his second outing as 007 in the follow up to Casino Royale in which Bond was betrayed by Vesper.
Along with M (Dame Judi Dench) Bond uncovers the organisation which blackmailed Vesper, but begins to realise it is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
On a mission that takes him around the world, Bond comes up against Greene, a ruthless business man with sinister plans.
Quantum of Solace is released 31st October 2008.
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New York, Oct 8 : American actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that she looked for guidance in her late mother Marcheline Bertrand while shooting Clint Eastwood’s “The Changeling”.
She revealed at the New York Film Festival premiere that while playing the role of a mother desperately seeking her kidnapped son, she would often think of her mother.
“My mother would fight that hard for her children,” the New York Daily News quoted Jolie as saying.
“The role made me confront my worst fear. It made me feel closer to my kids and grateful every night just to know where they are and that they’re healthy.
“Making the phone call [in the film], saying that my kid was kidnapped, was difficult. I don’t even like saying it right now,” she added.
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As seniors in high school, Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.
| High School Musical 3: Senior Year | |
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the Theatrical release poster for upcoming instalment |
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| Directed by | Kenny Ortega |
| Produced by | Bill Borden Barry Rosenbush Don Schain (co-producer) |
| Written by | Peter Barsocchini |
| Starring | Zac Efron Vanessa Hudgens />Ashley Tisdale [Lucas Grabeel]] Corbin Bleu Monique Coleman |
| Music by | David Lawrence Matthew Gerrard Robbie Nevil Shankar Mahadevan Randy Peterson Antonnia Armato Andy Dodd Faye Greenberg Jamie Houston Adam Watts Kevin Quinn |
| Cinematography | Daniel Aranyo |
| Editing by | Seth Flaum |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $13.3 million[1] |
| Preceded by | High School Musical 2 |
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2008 may very well be remembered as “the year of the superhero”. This is the year that gave us the immaculate “The Dark Knight”, the crowd-pleasing “Incredible Hulk” (although it did everything BUT please me), and of course the surprisingly strong “Iron Man” starring Robert Downey Jr. The latter has just been released on DVD and Blu-Ray, with a 2-Disc “Ultimate” Edition that’s sure to satisfy the millions of fans the film garnered since its release this past May.
This hugely entertaining comic book adaptation about Tony Stark (Downey Jr.), a smarmy and sarcastic narcissist of a billionaire playboy who comes from a long line of weapons manufacturers who donates those weapons to the war effort. But when Tony is captured and held captive in a terrorist camp for three months, he plans an escape by constructing a suit of iron equipped with some nifty devices and an assortment of weapons. After being rescued, Tony returns home with a renewed set of morals and a fresh new purpose: he wants to protect the people he put in harm’s way by modifying his original suit design. But Tony is soon swept up in a plot being orchestrated by his shady business partner Obidiah Stane (Jeff Bridges), who wants to use Tony’s suit design for more sinister purposes.
This 2-Disc DVD is jam-packed with bonus features, starting with a slew of deleted/extended scenes that are good to say the very least, but while watching them it’s obvious why they were cut. Most of these scenes are extended versions of scenes in the final cut, such as more interaction between Tony and Rhodes (Terrence Howard) at Caesar’s Palace and on the plane ride to Afghanistan. However, there are some entirely new scenes that are pretty nice, including more Iron Man action from the film’s finale and a scene in which Obidiah Stane chastises his workers for not building his own suit quick enough.
But the bulk of the bonus features are on the second disc. Things really kick off with an elaborate 7-part making-of documentary entitled “I Am Iron Man”. This documentary chronicles every single part of the process of bringing “Iron Man” to the big screen; it certainly takes a while to get through, but it’s still a worthy special feature. Another one, “Wired: The Visual Effects of Iron Man”, gives us a gander into how the filmmakers created the impressive special effects of the movie, as the title would suggest. “The Invincible Iron Man” is another multi-chaptered documentary, this one a 6-parter which details the history of the character Iron Man, from the initial conception to what he has now become. Also included is Robert Downey Jr.’s Screen Test for the film, a short feature entitled “The Actor’s Process”, still galleries and more. This Special Edition DVD is the type collectors dream off: full of quality features that showcase the hard work put into a really good film.
Of course, Paramount has also released a standard one-disc edition which includes only the film and the deleted/extended scenes, but this is the version more deserving of your money.
Movie Rating: 4 stars
DVD Rating: 4.5 stars
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With the push back of the latest Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to 09 sometime, I am sure this will be a huge update. Below I have added all 40 pictures for you fans out there.
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