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Director M. Night Shyamalan is preparing to release his first big-budget, effects-driven blockbuster, “The Last Airbender,” based on the Nickelodeon cartoon “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” on July 1. And his next original film is a project for which the stars now seem to be aligning.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog reveals that those stars include Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow and Bruce Willis, who are all “loosely attached” to headline the film. No plot details have been revealed, as is usual with Shyamalan, but the filmmaker has assistants ferrying his script between studio execs, who are observed by those same assistants and are expected to surrender the script immediately after finishing.
“Lady in the Water” aside, Shyamalan’s films continue to make money, though his most recent efforts have fared poorly with critics. And nothing has performed as well as the director’s debut effort, “The Sixth Sense,” which starred Willis and earned almost $700 million in worldwide ticket sales. The actor also worked with Shyamalan on his “Sixth Sense” follow-up, “Unbreakable.” If Willis is cast in this mysterious “Airbender” follow-up, it would be the pair’s first time working together since 2000.
Cooper, who is just coming off of smiling for the cameras in support of this summer’s “The A-Team” and presenting duties at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, has a big 2011 coming up. He’ll star in the Todd Phillips-directed ensemble comedy “The Hangover 2,” reprising his role from last summer. He’ll also lead a cast that includes Robert De Niro, Anna Friel and Abbie Cornish in an adaptation of Alan Glynn’s novel “The Dark Fields.”
Paltrow is also coming off of a big press push for her own work in 2010 summer blockbuster “Iron Man 2.” She’ll appear later this year with Leighton Meester, Tim McGraw and “Tron Legacy” star Garrett Hedlund in the country music drama “Love Don’t Let Me Down.” She’s also one of the sizable ensemble cast that’s assembled for Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion,” which also stars Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Laurence Fishburne.
Bradley Cooper may be a member of The A-Team now, but he could be Double-A or Triple-A in the baseball flick Disney is developing. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’s attached to star in an untitled dramedy about an injured big league player who gets sent back to the minors — “where the only place he can find lodging is in a senior citizens’ home.”
“There,” the trade continues, “he meets an old baseball guru who helps lead him back.”
Let’s break this down. Immediately, I had two regrets: Paul Newman isn’t around to play the senior citizen (he would’ve been great), and Kevin Costner isn’t old enough. But moving beyond those disappointments, this concept — now being developed by Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps scribe Allan Loeb — definitely has promise. The minor leagues are full of ridiculous fodder (see: Bull Durham), and we love seeing men from two different generations talk America’s favorite pastime (see: Field of Dreams). Plus, the ladies in that senior citizens’ home are gonna love Cooper, and he looks really good scruffy (you know we’re gonna have the too-down-and-out-to-even-shave montage).
Are you digging this as much as I am? Don’t even try to pretend you don’t enjoy a good sports film from the Mouse House: The Rookie, Remember the Titans, Invincible, Miracle, Cool Runnings, The Mighty Ducks. Who would you like to see cast as Cooper’s mentor in the home? Robert Redford seems a natural fit. But I also have a dream of Clint Eastwood playing gruff in a Disney film…
Bradley Cooper and Liam Neeson star as Face and Hannibal in ‘The A-Team’ movie and while it isn’t a brilliant or exhilarating action-packed movie, it packed enough into the weak storyline to avoid people from walking out of the movie theaters.
While, it is never a good sign when the shining point of a movie is an actor’s body and mannerisms, it has to be stated that Bradley Cooper is to be admired for helping to bring in a solid crowd to the movie based upon those two things. From the first minutes of the movie to the last few seconds, Bradley Cooper was a sparkling beacon to the movie.
Unfortunately, ‘The A-Team’ is a movie that plays to more male audiences and as such most of that demographic is not going to be enticed to a movie to see a hot body. While there were some action scenes, they were pretty weak and as stated before the story-line was thin and weak. The movie version of ‘The A-Team’ didn’t live up to the brilliance of the TV series but the actors certainly tried their best.
However, there was one part of the script that left me feeling less than impressed. And that was how the character B.A Baracus was portrayed. It has been a long time since I have really watched the TV show but I don’t even remember B.A being as wimpish and babyish as he was in this movie version.
All-in-all, ‘The A-Team’ was a good entryway back into the franchise and hopefully the sequel will have a better storyline. Los Angeles resident Justin was disappointed in the script and thought that there should have been more hard-hitting action.
Jaden Smith has well learned from the master. His father.
Showing the box-office moves of Will Smith, the 11-year-old kicked a disappointing summer back into gear with a fantastic $56 million Friday-Sunday debut for The Karate Kid.
As for The A-Team, the weekend’s other major release—and 1980s revival… Well, it could’ve used some Smith family magic.
The $100 million-ish adventure looked B-list with an underwhelming $26 million debut.
More results:
• The Karate Kid made its bank from families (45 percent of ticket buyers brought their own karate kids, an audience survey showed), and, interestingly, people who weren’t yet born when the Ralph Macchio original was released in 1984 (56 percent of moviegoers were under 25).
• The A-Team, based on the 1983-87 TV series, never really had a chance of showing up The Karate Kid—not when The Karate Kid cost about $60 million less to produce.
• It’s not surprising that The Karate Kid is the biggest opener of Jaden Smith’s young career. It is surprising that the film debuted larger than all but two of his dad’s movies.
• After three weekends at No. 1, Shrek Forever After ($15.8 million) slipped to third. It consoled itself by surpassing $200 million domestically.
• Iron Man 2 ($4.6 million) could cross the $300 million domestic mark on Monday.
• On the downside, Robin Hood ($2.7 million) fell from the Top 10 before hitting $100 million. On the upside, star Russell Crowe didn’t fall from an Austrian mountain. That, and his movie has made nearly $300 million worldwide.
Here’s a complete look at the weekend’s top-grossing films, per Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. The Karate Kid, $56 million
2. The A-Team, $26 million
3. Shrek Forever After, $15.8 million
4. Get Him to the Greek, $10.1 million
5. Killers, $8.2 million
6. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, $6.6 million
7. Marmaduke, $6 million
8. Sex and the City 2, $5.5 million
9. Iron Man 2, $4.6 million
10. Splice, $2.9 million
In their new film “The A-Team,” Bradley Cooper and Jessica Biel share a memorable lip-lock as Face and one of his comely cohorts, Charisa Sosa. But as attractive as the prospect of a make-out session between these two very attractive actors might be, on Sunday night all eyes will be on the couple they present Best Kiss to at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards.
MTV Movies recently spoke with Cooper and Biel during interviews promoting “The A-Team,” which hits theaters June 11. In addition to describing the challenges of bringing to life a big-screen version of the beloved 1980s television series, the actors each revealed their own secrets for creating a memorable onscreen kiss.
Cooper said that crafting a successful kiss has a lot to do with how it looks. “It’s got to be hot, right?” he said. The actor has enjoyed his share of smooches in recent movies, with Leslie Bibb in “The Midnight Meat Train,” Rachel McAdams in “Wedding Crashers,” Sandra Bullock in “All About Steve” and both Jennifer Connelly and Scarlett Johansson in “He’s Just Not That Into You.” (That last one more or less makes him our personal hero.)
For Biel, meanwhile, the key to a great kiss has a lot to do with chemistry — and she means that literally. “Probably cherry lip gloss is a good ingredient,” she revealed. “And maybe an Altoid.” In addition to her recent smooch with Cooper, during her movie career Biel has shared sweet moments with Freddie Prinze Jr., Chris Evans, Nicolas Cage, Adam Sandler and Jamie Foxx. She admitted that her secrets to onscreen kissing were probably applicable to kisses in the real world as well, calling it good advice “in general, really.”
Given the fact that the impeccably coiffed folks from MTV’s “Jersey Shore” are virtually everywhere these days, it’s hard to imagine that anyone isn’t on a first-name basis with the castmembers. But it turns out that some actors and filmmakers simply don’t budget enough time into their superstar schedules to keep tabs on Snooki, JWoww and the rest of the crew.
When asked if he were familiar with the show, Bradley Cooper, who is presenting Best Kiss at Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards ceremony, told MTV Movies: “I am ashamed to say that I am not, because all of my friends, that’s all they talk about.” Cooper revealed that he actually has his own Jersey connection: “I grew up going to the Jersey Shore every summer.”
Meanwhile, Jessica Biel, who not only is presenting the Best Kiss award with Cooper but also co-stars with him in the new “A-Team” film, admitted she knew about the show, but wasn’t much more familiar with it than Cooper.
“I’ve never seen it,” Biel confessed. “I know who these people are — I mean, I don’t live in a hole. Well, somewhat but not really. But I’ve never seen the show.”
The MTV Movies team helped Biel out, explaining that Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino’s perfectly carved physique earned him his now-infamous nickname. Biel laughed, “Oh, God, that’s a person? ‘The Situation’ equals ample abs? I wasn’t aware. Thank you!
“I know somebody would have said that,” she said about walking the Movie Awards red carpet on Sunday and fielding “Jersey Shore” questions. “And I would have said, ‘I don’t know what’s going on! What’s happening?’ ”
During MTV News’ “Jersey Shore Blow-Out at the MTV Movie Awards,” which airs at 8 p.m., right before the Movie Awards, Snooki, Pauly, JWoww, the Situation, Angelina, Sammi, Ronnie and Vinny will present the first 10 minutes of “Jersey Shore” season two. The new season, which premieres in full on Thursday, July 29, follows the cast as they leave the chilly winter waters of Seaside Heights and head out on a road trip to Miami.
When we caught up with Bradley Cooper at “The A-Team” premiere last night, the actor made no bones about being squarely in the corner of his “Hangover” co-star Zach Galifianakis, who finds himself nominated for “Best Breakout Star” at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. “No one’s tougher than Zach Galifianakis … so I don’t even try to even compare anybody,” Cooper told us.
“The Hangover” was the comedian’s biggest role to date, after a string of background appearances in films like “Below” and “Into the Wild.” Since “Hangover” became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time, however, Galifianakis has become a hot ticket and will shortly be seen in films like the Paul Rudd/ Steve Carell-starring “Dinner for Schmucks,” as well as a “Hangover” sequel.
Zach is up against some tough competition in the category, which includes names like Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine. Have your own fave? Then head on over to the Movie Awards site to cast your vote now.
Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd were surprised to have bagged Broadway roles alongside Julia Roberts because they felt they weren’t orthodox actors.
The pair worked with the beauty on the 2006 New York production of Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain.
The duo believes their career progressed after starring in cult comedy ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ in their early days in the film industry.
“We would sit around laughing saying if we had had a crystal ball when we were shooting Wet Hot American Summer and it had told us we were going to be the two guys opposite Julia Roberts in a play, we would have thought that was crazy,” the Daily Express quoted Cooper, as telling Details magazine.
He added: “Movie stars used to be dashing, masculine, and mysterious and we’re the kind of guys that laugh at our own farts.”
The June/July issue of Details magazine features actor Bradley Cooper looking very much like “one of the guys” in the fashion spread. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy, Cooper is presented in a very casual light, playing basketball and just seemingly having a good time. Some of his very relatable fashion for the spread comes by way of DKNY Pure, Splendid Mills, Pro-Keds, What Comes Around Goes Around and Michael Bastian, all of which lends itself nicely to the natural feel of the shoot.
Though many may view the The A-Team star as an increasing “sex symbol” in Hollywood, he’s still only coming to grips with his good looks and striking physique. In the interview with Details he expressed, “As the movie progressed, I got in increasingly better shape,” about filming The A-Team. “There’s this one fight scene with Liam Neeson toward the end, where it’s, like, the apex of the work. We finished and Joe’s like, ‘Brother, come here, look at this,’ and he played it back, and I swear to God, it looked like my head was digitally superimposed onto someone else’s body. “I was like, ‘This cannot be me—that’s the way I look?’ ” Cooper says. “It was so fucking surreal, ’cause as a kid I only fantasized about looking that way. Remember Soloflex commercials? That was huge when I was a kid. It was like, ‘I wanna be the Soloflex guy. Mom, can we get the Soloflex?’ “
You can check out the full interview in the June/July issue of Details magazine, but take a look a some of the photo spread bonus images and behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot below.
Ok, so, I just updated the sidebar with Bradley’s schedule! I want to give a big thanks to the wonderful Elodie for giving me all the dates Bradley will be on these talk shows! And I also added a couple of dates that I knew of. So be sure to check it out below or on the sidebar under “Bradley’s Schedule”!
Bradley’s Schedule
• 6/06 – 2010 MTV Movie Awards
• 6/09 – The Today Show
• 6/09 – The Late Show with David Letterman
• 6/10 – Live with Regis & Kelly
• 6/10 – Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• 6/11 – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
The Hangover 2 (2011)
The A-Team (2010)
Valentine's Day (2010)
