Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating today, February 17th, including:

1925 – Hal Holbrook, actor
1954 – Rene Russo, actress
1956 – Richard Karn, actor
1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
1963 – Michael Jordan, athlete
1971 – Denise Richards, actress
1972 – Billie Joe Armstrong, musician
1974 – Jerry O’Connell, actor
1980 – Jason Ritter, actor
1981 – Paris Hilton, socialite
1981 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor
1991 – Bonnie Wright, actress
1992 – Meaghan Jette Martin, actress

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Vanity Fair’s Annual Hollywood Issue cover is upon us. The March 2011 cover shot by Norman Jean Roy, features some of the hottest names in movies right now. The mag proclaims: “Vanity Fair went back to the basics—no teenagers, no penguins, no (full-on) nudity, just the most exciting actors and actresses of the moment.”

But once again, it’s a pretty white bread deal. The four actors on the front cover are (left to right) Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and James Franco.

The rest of ‘Hot Hollywood’ featured after the fold out are (left to right following Franco,) Jennifer Lawrence, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Jesse Eisenberg, Mila Kunis, Robert Duvall, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Garrett Hedlund and Noomi Rapace (see the larger/full photo under.)

This is mainstream Hollywood at it’s finest, which I guess is exactly what you buy VF for. The only two actors of color (Mackie and Jones) do not make the front and the only older actor (over 35) Duvall is hidden in the back like they were ashamed to include him.

Vanity Fair has come under fire for it’s white, white and more white focus in the past years, but what do you think? Is it the magazine’s fault or Hollywood in general for only casting white?

This issue goes on sale in New York and Los Angeles February 3rd and then nationally on February 8th.

Check out the full cover inside. (Read the article)

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is beautiful in blue for the cover of Details magazine August issue. The actor, who grew up playing Tommy Solomon on television’s wacky and great show 3rd Rock from the Sun says he fell into a funk after the cancellation of the hit.

“I was scared and depressed for a while. Not that I had any reason to f–king be depressed—I mean, I was going to college and everything. It was not like I was hungry. But absolutely. I was like, ‘S–t, I don’t know if anybody’s gonna let me act. They’ll let me be in another sitcom, but I don’t want to do that.”

JGL has always come across as a fairly laid back dude and he is open about lighting up occassionally:

“When I was in high school, I loved smoking weed. I loved it. But I cut myself to once a month. That was my rule. And so as the first of the month came closer, my friends would be like, ‘All right, what’s the plan this weekend?’ And actually it’s really cool—when you do it that infrequently, you can really trip. In hindsight, could I have smoked weed on the weekends? Yeah. But it was cool to do it once a month. I still do that sometimes—I go on little weedfests. I’m a pothead. That’s my drug of choice.”

I love love love Gordon-Levitt. I thought he was fantastic in Mysterious Skin and Brick and how could you not enjoy (500) Days of Summer? I cannot wait to see Inception and how he plays off of Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page.

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Here’s a description of the first trailer for the upcoming Christopher Nolan film Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The new full trailer is not out to the public yet, but this gives us a glimpse.

This evening, I attended a packed advanced screening of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. About 95% of the time at these screenings, they don’t show trailers before the film. Tonight, I was surprised to find a brand new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception attached. The trailer isn’t actually available for public viewing yet, but you can hit the jump for a brief description and some reactions.

[Note that I cannot vouch for the accuracy of any of the following; I wasn't expecting to see the trailer so I didn't have a chance to grab my notepad.]

Overall, I have to confess: This trailer was almost completely incomprehensible, a series of images and words that left me in kind of a daze, albeit excited as well. The trailer begins quietly and we get a voiceover by Leonardo DiCaprio. According to one IMDB poster, the voiceover dialogue was as follows:

What’s the most resilient form of parasite? An idea. An idea has the power to build a city… to change the world, and re-write all the rules..

In perhaps one of the most spectacular visuals from any trailer I’ve seen in recent memory, we see a city block folding upwards at a right angle into an L shape, while citizens in the foreground look on (a glimpse of Ellen Page is seen at around this time). The trailer continues to throw random images at you without any context or explanation. Leo is at a cafe when there appears to be an explosion in the background that freezes all of a sudden, Matrix-style. According to the same IMDB poster, “At one point a train is driving down a street, plowing through cars. People are fighting mid-air, someone on a motorcycle drives beside a car holding a huge gun. Ken Watanabe looks like a really scary villain from the one smile he gives.” Here’s how random and jam-packed this trailer was: I don’t actually remember any of that stuff happening!

All this stuff is followed by Leo delivering the capper line, referring to the “idea” from earlier:

…and that’s why I need to steal it.

We see Leo in a kitchen holding a gun. Lots of people are apparently in distress, perhaps fighting one another. Lots of extremely slow-motion imagery of water, and water colliding with people.

Sounds cool, even if nothing more is explained about the plot in the trailer I’m still excited to see this movie. Christopher Nolan is a true artist and I’d be happy to watch anything he makes.

Source: /Film

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star in the new Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) film Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is joining the cast of Christopher Nolan’s next movie, the not-Batman one called Inception. Now he has a way to balance the actor karma scales, just in case G.I. Joe sucks as everyone seems to think it does.

This film is bound to be good, with Nolan at the helm and writing it. I’m really looking forward to this.

Source: Cinema Blend

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Here’s the new poster for the upcoming romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer.

It’s nice to see a poster that people actually spent some time on to give it detail, not just a bunch of giant heads in a row. 

Source: Latino Review

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Here’s the trailer for the new film 500 Days of Summer. 

Looks quirky, it seems like it could go either way. 

Source: Trailer Addict

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All new posters have been released for the new film, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra starring Channing Tatum.

Click each one to see the high quality version.

Is this movie going to have substance and quality or is a massive marketing campaign? What do you think?

Source: Trailer Addict

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