Word on the street is that the Grossness That Is Mickey Rourke has nabbed the role of the villain in Iron Man 2, alongside Sam Rockwell.
A very tight lid is being kept on the script, but it is known that Rourke would play a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils.
Rockwell would play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Anthony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, a role being reprised by Robert D...
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If you want t...
Robert Pattinson has officially sold out.
The Twilight megahunk has dropped out of Parts Per Billion, the independent film he was supposed to begin shooting in Los Angeles this month, to ready himself for round two as vampiric heartthrob Edward Cullen.
"Unfortunately, the prep time and production schedule on New Moon haven't left enough time for Robert to work on Parts Per Billion in the first quarter of this year," the star's agent, Nicholas Frenkel, told MTV.
No word yet on who will fill the heartthrob's shoes on the indie flick, produced by and starring Rosario Dawson.
I wonder what Rosario Dawson...
Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi were hard at work threatening the sanctity of marriage on Wednesday night, as Portia stood lovingly beside her wife, Ellen, who'd just won the People's Choice Award for Best Talk Show Host. Portia beams at the camera and then beams at her wife, because it's so exciting that they can share and treasure this achievement, because they're married now, and because they are working hard to set the foundation for a lifelong partnership that can be fulfilling and jo...
Where's Lindsay?
Samantha and her trademark ridiculous boots were snapped wandering around Beverly Hills on Wednesday, following a Tuesday night spent conspicuously separate from Lindsers:
LiLo hit Apple Lounge with her assistant and a girlfriend (but no SamRo) in tow. She arrived around 11:30 and headed to her table, where she sat with club owner Allison Melnick.
"She seemed kind of indifferent, emotionless," a source tells E! News. "It was definitely apparent her friends were trying to c...
Boo-yah!!! My cutie-pie Taylor Lautner has been signed on to play Jacob in the Twilight sequel, New Moon, and will not be replaced by consummate douchebag Michael Copon. Twilight author Stephenie Meyer posted the following on her blog today:
Good news about New Moon from director Chris Weitz:
I'm very happy to announce that Taylor Lautner will be playing Jacob Black in New Moon and that he's doing so with the enthusiastic support of Summit Entertainment, the producers, and Stephenie ...
Mickey Rourke attempts to smoke the wrong side of a cigarette ... on the red carpet for the premiere of The Wrestler.
Look, I'm the last person on earth to judge someone for smoking, but there's something phenomenally classless about doing it on a red carpet. Admittedly, I kind of love when Simon Cowell walks the red carpet with a pack in his hands -- although he is the only person on earth who can get away with it -- but even Simon never actually lights up.
You're so gross, Mickey.
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If you guessed Taylor Swift with Fearless, you'd be correct.
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“The only story is that drugs are bad and they will kill you - you will become a prostitute, a rapist or a dealer. But that's not true. I know lots of people who take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work. But we never hear that side of the story. I wish people wouldn’t sensationalise it. Some people are just bad at taking drugs.”
Lily Allen, who has always been completely responsible about her drug and alcohol consumption, in a controversial interview that's pissed of...
All of Hollywood is buzzing about this today:
Anne Hathaway, a Desert Palm Achievement Award recipient, seemed to lose the audience while discussing “process metaphysics.” That prompted a surprised comment from almost always perky emcee, Mary Hart. “Did I hear that from backstage correctly? We just got into metaphysics? Whatever happened to good ol' blonde bimbos?” she quipped.
Apparently Anne turned off a lot of people in attendance by ending her acceptance speech with some manner of rant about "process metaphysics" ...
Another day, another rumor about how Sarah Jessica Parker's marriage to Matthew Broderick is falling apart.
There have been rumors forever that Matthew's cheating on her with a much younger woman, and that Sarah has just been dealing with it rather than go through a nasty divorce, but now people are saying she's looking for a place of her own.
"The time has come when she realizes it just isn't worth it," a friend of the couple tells Star. "Sarah Jessica is determined to get her own p...
There's a kickass piece on Brad Pitt in this month's W magazine, and really the whole thing's worth a read, but he does discuss the firestorm that erupted when Jennifer Aniston stated that "what Angelina did was really uncool."
Over the course of the next 90 minutes, Pitt proves to be unfailingly gracious, good-humored and game for all questions, including those about his life with Angelina Jolie and their brood of six, whom he refers to as “this cuckoo’s nest that we got going on ov...